International Journal of Ageing and Later Life (IJAL), Volume 5, No 2 2010

Special Issue on Migrant Care Workers Caring for Older People in their Homes

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.1052

Published: 2011-01-26

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Editorial

Acknowledgement

Lars Andersson

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Guest Editorial

Migrant home care workers caring for older people: fictive kin, substitute, and complementary family caregivers in an ethnically diverse environment

Andreas Hoff, Susan Feldman, Lucie Vidovicova

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Articles in a Special Issue

Embodying the ideal carer

Bernhard Weicht

17-52

Tasks performed by primary caregivers and migrant live-in homecare workers in Israel

Esther Iecovich

53-75

Ethno-cultural diversity in home care work in Canada

Anne Martin-Matthews, Joanie Sims-Gould, John Naslund

77-101

Lonely older people as a problem in society – construction in Finnish media

Hanna Uotila, Kirsi Lumme-Sandt, Marja Saarenheimo

103-130

Book reviews

Christina Victor, Sasha Scambler and John Bond (2009). The Social World of Older People. Understanding Loneliness and Social Isolation in Later Life. Maidenhead: Open University Press, 262 pp. ISBN 978 0 335 21521 8 (paperback)

Lars Andersson

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