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Situating ‘Home’ at the Nexus of the Public and Private Spheres

Ageing, Gender and Home Support Work in Canada

Anne Martin-Matthews

University of British Columbia

This article examines the provision of in-home health and social support services to elderly clients in the context of home as the site of care. It considers gender in the provision of home support services by a marginalized group of employed women; in the experiences of elderly clients receiving services in the private sphere of the ‘home’; in the relationships between old people, family member(s) and home support workers; and in the gendered use of space within the household in care work. Informed by a self-reflexive, autobiographical perspective, the researcher’s experiences as a daughter in a family receiving home care prompted the re-examination of qualitative panel data from 150 home care workers and 155 elderly clients. It examines issues of territory and boundary, control and cooperation, the symbolic significance of home and the negotiating of contingent relationships when public services are provided in the private sphere of home.

Key Words: ageing • care work • caregiving • families • feminist gerontology • gender • home • home care • self-reflexive • social support

Current Sociology, Vol. 55, No. 2, 229-249 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0011392107073305
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