Description: Introduction - Jaber F Gubrium and Andrea Sanker PART ONE: THE HOME AS SICKROOM The Dependent Elderly, Home Health Care, and Strategies of Household Adaptation - Steven M Albert Culture and Disorder in the Home Care Experience - Robert L Rubenstein The Home as Sickroom Making Arrangements - Juliet M Corbin and Anselm Strauss The Key to Home Care The Defiance of Hope - Joel S Savishinsky Dementia Sufferers and their Carers in a London Borough PART TWO: PATTERNS OF CAREGIVING Invisible Caregivers in the Spotlight - Judith C Barker and Linda S Mitteness Non-Kin Caregivers of Frail Older Adults Support Systems for the Familyless Elderly - Lucy Rose Fischer, Leah Rogne and Nancy N Eustis Care Without Commitment Personal Care - G Clare Wenger Variation in Network Type, Style, and Capacity The Dynamics of Long-Term Familial Caregiving - Myrna Silverman and Elizabeth Huelsman Daughters Caring for Elderly Parents - Emily K Abel PART THREE: SERVICE PROVISION: DEFINING AND DECISION-MAKING Describing Home Care - James A Holstein Discourse and Image in Involuntary Commitment Proceedings Transformations of Home - Ann E P Dill The Formal and Informal Process of Home Care Planning Policing the Family? Health Visiting and the Public Surveillance of Private Behavior - Robert Dingwall and Kathleen M Robinson

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