Dirty Linen, Liminal Spaces, and Later Life: Meanings of Laundry in Care Home Design and Practice
| Autor: | Julia Twigg, Christina Buse, Sarah Nettleton, Daryl Martin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Sociology and Political Science
Laundry business.industry Care homes Lived experience media_common.quotation_subject Clothing 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Work (electrical) 030502 gerontology Aesthetics Care work 030212 general & internal medicine Sociology Architecture 0305 other medical science business Liminality media_common |
| Zdroj: | Sociological Research Online. 23:711-727 |
| ISSN: | 1360-7804 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1360780418780037 |
| Popis: | This article explores the design and practice of laundries and laundry work in care home settings. This is an often-overlooked aspect of the care environment, yet one that shapes lived experiences and meanings of care. It draws on ethnographic and qualitative data from two UK-based Economic and Social Research Council–funded studies: Buildings in the Making, a study of architects designing care homes for later life, and Dementia and Dress, a project exploring the role of clothing in dementia care. Drawing together these studies, the article explores the temporality and spatiality of laundry work, contrasting designers’ conceptions of laundry in terms of flows, movement, and efficiency with the lived bodily reality of laundry work, governed by the messiness of care and ‘body time’. The article examines how laundry is embedded within the meanings and imaginaries of the care home as a ‘home’ or ‘hotel’, and exposes the limitations of these imaginaries. We explore the significance of laundry work for supporting identity, as part of wider assemblages of care. The article concludes by drawing out implications for architectural design and sociological conceptions of care. |
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