SOC352H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Dementia
Document Summary
Looking out of place by buse and twigg. The article explores how clothing exposes andtroubles the ambiguous location of care homes on the boundaries ofpublic/private, home/ institutional space. Care homes occupy a particularly ambiguous position at the boundaries ofpublic/ private space, home/n ot home. The article begins by briefly summarising sociological and anthropologicalliterature on changing meanin gs and the representations of ""the care home,"" and their relation to ideals of home and hospitality. "" the final theme explores the role of clothing in challenging the meaning ofcare settings as ""home,"" a nd expressing residents" desire to return home at anembodied level. The dominant discursive construction of care homes in the post- war era in theuk has been in terms of home. Care providers have deployed both the physical features and symbolic ideals of""home"" to make care ho mes more appealing representing them as ""homely"" and as a ""home away from home"".
