There's No Place Like Home: Place And Care In An Ageing Society (geographies Of Health)

There’s No Place Like Home: Place and Care in an Ageing Society Christine Milligan There’s No Place Like Home: Place and Care in an Ageing Society Geographies of Health Series Editors Allison Williams, Associate Professor, School of Geography and Earth Sciences, McMaster University, Canada Susan Elliott, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, McMaster University, Canada There is growing interest in the geographies of health and a continued interest in what has more traditionally been labeled medical geography. The traditional focus of ‘medical geography’ on areas such as disease ecology, health service provision and disease mapping (all of which continue to reflect a mainly quantitative approach to inquiry) has evolved to a focus on a broader, theoretically informed epistemology of health geographies in an expanded international reach. As a result, we now find this subdiscipline characterized by a strongly theoretically-informed research agenda, embracing a range of methods (quantitative; qualitative and the integration of the two) of inquiry concerned with questions of: risk; representation and meaning; inequality and power; culture and difference, among others. Health mapping and modeling, has simultaneously been strengthened by the technical advances made in multilevel modeling, advanced spatial analytic methods and GIS, while further engaging in questions related to health inequalities, population health and environmental degradation. This series publishes superior quality research monographs and edited collections representing contemporary applications in the field; this encompasses original research as well as advances in methods, techniques and theories. The Geographies of Health series will capture the interest of a broad body of scholars, within the social sciences, the health sciences and beyond. Also in the series Therapeutic Landscapes Edited by Allison Williams ISBN 978 0 7546 7099 5 Sense of Place, Health and Quality of Life Edited by John Eyles and Allison Williams ISBN 978 0 7546 7332 3 Primary Health Care: People, Practice, Place Edited by Valorie A. Crooks and Gavin J. Andrews ISBN 978 0 7546 7247 0 There’s No Place Like Home: Place and Care in an Ageing Society Christine Milligan Lancaster University, UK © Christine Milligan 2009 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Christine Milligan has asserted her right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work. Published by Ashgate Publishing Limited Ashgate Publishing Company Wey Court East Suite 420 Union Road 101 Cherry Street Farnham Burlington Surrey, GU9 7PT VT 05401-4405 England USA www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Milligan, Christine, Dr. There’s no place like home : place and care in an ageing society. -- (Geographies of health) 1. Older people with disabilities--Care--Cross-cultural studies. 2. Older people with disabilities--Home care. 3. Older people with disabilities--Institutional care. 4. Caregivers--Great Britain--Case studies. 5. Caregivers-New Zealand--Case studies. 6. Medical personnel-caregiver relationships. I. Title II. Series 362.4'048'0846-dc22 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Milligan, Christine, Dr. There’s no place like home : place and care in an ageing society / by Christine Milligan. p. cm. -- (Ashgate’s Geographies of health series) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-7546-7423-8 -- ISBN 978-0-7546-9048-1 (ebk.) 1. Social work with older people. 2. Older people--Care. I. Title. HV1451.M555 2009 362.6--dc22  ISBN 978 0 7546 7423 8 (hbk) ISBN 978 0 7546 9048 1 (ebk.V) 200902