Ways of Home Making in Care for Later Life

This is a book on how home is made when care enters the lives of people as they grow old at home or in homely institutions. Throughout the book, contributors show how home is a verb: it is something people do. Home is thus always in the making, temporal, contested, and open to negotiation and experimentation. By bringing together approaches from STS, anthropology, health humanities and health care studies, the book points to the importance of people's tinkerings and experiments with making home, as it is here that home is being made and unmade.

Bernike Pasveer is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Studies Maastricht University, The Netherlands. Oddgeir Synnes is Associate Professor at the Centre of Diaconia and Professional Practice, VID Specialized University, Norway Ingunn Moser is Professor at the Faculty of Health Studies at VID Specialized University, Norway.