Special Issue on: Transnational Mobilities of Care in Old Age

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.2019132

Published: 2019-12-06

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Editorial

Acknowledgements

Peter Öberg

7-8

Guest Editorial

Transnational mobilities of care in old age

Vincent Horn, Cornelia Schweppe

9-22

Articles in a Special Issue

Producing (im)mobilities in home care for the elderly: the role of home care agencies in Switzerland

Huey Shy Chau

23-50

Fragile familiarity in transnational home care arrangements for older people

Karin van Holten, Heidi Kaspar, Eva Soom-Ammann

51-82

Live-in migrant care worker arrangements in Germany and the Netherlands: motivations and justifications in family decision-making

Vincent Horn, Cornelia Schweppe, Anita Böcker, María Bruquetas-Callejo

83-113

Care facilities for Germans in Thailand and Poland: making old age care abroad legitimate

Désirée Bender, Cornelia Schweppe

115-143

Book reviews

Mark Schweda, Larissa Pfaller, Kai Brauer, Frank Adloff and Silke Schicktanz (eds.) (2017). Planning Later Life. Bioethics and Public Health in Ageing Societies. Abingdon/ New York: Taylor & Francis [Routledge Advances in Health and Social Policy], 263 pp

Malte Völk

145-149

Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard (2016). Personhood, Identity and Care in Advanced Old Age. Bristol: Policy Press. ISBN 978-1-4473-1906-1 (Paperback)

Michael Fine

151-154

Stephen Katz (ed.) (2018). Ageing in Everyday Life. Materialities and Embodiments. Bristol: Policy Press, 208 pp. ISBN 978-1447335917 (hardback)

Joyce Weil

155-159