ABSTRACT
Older people both question and manipulate their use of voice for specific purposes in differing contexts. For some older people, these accommodations may be benign and even empowering. Others become complicit in their own oppression and loss of rights, notably regarding quality in their care. Too often the experience of care is subsumed under discussions of costs, policy, regulation and practice. Using a theoretical framework of austerity economics, and theoretical conceptualizations of care, distance and social exclusion, I draw on examples of older people's voices in the research literature to explore why and how they make accommodations concerning their care needs. My focus is on experiences of care expressed through the voices of older people receiving paid care in their homes in remote northern communities.
