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Space and Liminality

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The onset of frailty or disability introduces challenges to the way in which individuals interact within their spatial environments. A better understanding of these challenges will come from examining the setting of home, which is at the heart of the policy of ageing-in-place. We consider changes to the meaning of home as it becomes a place of intensive care work, intended to support the independence of the older person, and we examine the associated changes to individual identity. In this chapter we consider evidence of the nature of this spatial disruption and the liminal experiences that arise in the management of the ageing, often damaged, body in the home.

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  1. Dept. Preventive & Social Medicine, c/o University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

    Dr. Beatrice Hale

  2. Dept. Political Science &Public Policy, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Dr. Patrick Barrett

  3. Dept. Preventive & Social Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

    Dr. Robin Gauld

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Hale, B., Barrett, P., Gauld, R. (2010). Space and Liminality. In: The Age of Supported Independence. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8814-7_3

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