Mary Ellen Purkis
Biographic Data
| ID | 194492 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Ellen Purkis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary Ellen |
| FAMILY NAME | Purkis |
| SIGNATURE | PURKIS M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7138-2849 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Seeing the collective: Family arrangements for care at home for older people with dementia
With the predicted growth in the number of people with dementia living at home across the globe, the need for home-based care is expected to increase. As such, it will be primarily family carers who will provide this crucial support to family members. Designing appropriate support for family carers is thus essential to minimise risks to their health, to prevent premature institutionalisation or poor care for persons with dementia, as well as to s…
Chapter Two: Privileging Practices: Manifesto for “New Nursing Studies”
Problematising care burden research
In this paper we use Alvesson and Sandberg's strategy of problematisation to analyse the assumptions embedded in the development and use of the concept of ‘care-giver burden’. We do this in order to develop an explanation as to why decades of research into the experience of providing home-based care to a family member with dementia has had little effect in relieving or reducing the ‘burden’ of that care. Though some part of this is undoubtedly po…
Theorizing accommodation in supportive home care for older people
Articulating the Role of Relationships in Access to Home Care Nursing at the End of Life
In this article, we draw on data collected from two samples of home care nurses to examine how relationships between nurses and family caregivers intersected with access to palliative home care nursing services. Participants referred to relationships as important for their practical benefits and for access to care: good relationships enhanced the nurse's ability to assess clients and families and fostered the family's trust in the nurse's care. A…
Means without ends: Justifying supportive home care for frail older people in Canada, 1990-2010
The challenges associated with ageing populations are very much on the policy and research agenda of many nations, with significant discussions focused on establishing appropriate, acceptable parameters of home care for those who are older and frail. This paper develops an analysis of changing justifications of home care in Canada (1990-2010) through examination of governmental and non-governmental home care policy documents and position papers, …
Bridging gaps in risk discourse: Home Care Case Management and Client Choices
This paper examines, and problematises, a well-entrenched conceptualisation of how home care case management practice works - that is, that case managers offer alternatives, and clients make choices. This understanding of practice is reinforced by organisational policy that states that clients have the right to live at risk if that is their choice. Analysis of data from a field study of home care practice in a western Canadian city, drawing predo…
Patching Up the Holes: Analyzing the Work of Home Care
Managing home nursing care: Visibility, accountability and exclusion
The paper examines managerial practices shaping contemporary home nursing care. Foucault's writings on governmentality are used to appraise managerial and nursing practices understood as exemplars of forms of government of people's health. An ethnographic study of organizational practices shaping contemporary home nursing care reveals that the everyday work of managers involves making particular forms of nursing practice visible. Through careful …
Bridging gaps in risk discourse: Home Care Case Management and Client Choices
This paper examines, and problematises, a well-entrenched conceptualisation of how home care case management practice works - that is, that case managers offer alternatives, and clients make choices. This understanding of practice is reinforced by organisational policy that states that clients have the right to live at risk if that is their choice. Analysis of data from a field study of home care practice in a western Canadian city, drawing predo…
Problematising care burden research
In this paper we use Alvesson and Sandberg's strategy of problematisation to analyse the assumptions embedded in the development and use of the concept of ‘care-giver burden’. We do this in order to develop an explanation as to why decades of research into the experience of providing home-based care to a family member with dementia has had little effect in relieving or reducing the ‘burden’ of that care. Though some part of this is undoubtedly po…
Patching Up the Holes: Analyzing the Work of Home Care
Means without ends: Justifying supportive home care for frail older people in Canada, 1990-2010
The challenges associated with ageing populations are very much on the policy and research agenda of many nations, with significant discussions focused on establishing appropriate, acceptable parameters of home care for those who are older and frail. This paper develops an analysis of changing justifications of home care in Canada (1990-2010) through examination of governmental and non-governmental home care policy documents and position papers, …
Seeing the collective: Family arrangements for care at home for older people with dementia
With the predicted growth in the number of people with dementia living at home across the globe, the need for home-based care is expected to increase. As such, it will be primarily family carers who will provide this crucial support to family members. Designing appropriate support for family carers is thus essential to minimise risks to their health, to prevent premature institutionalisation or poor care for persons with dementia, as well as to s…
Articulating the Role of Relationships in Access to Home Care Nursing at the End of Life
In this article, we draw on data collected from two samples of home care nurses to examine how relationships between nurses and family caregivers intersected with access to palliative home care nursing services. Participants referred to relationships as important for their practical benefits and for access to care: good relationships enhanced the nurse's ability to assess clients and families and fostered the family's trust in the nurse's care. A…
Managing home nursing care: Visibility, accountability and exclusion
The paper examines managerial practices shaping contemporary home nursing care. Foucault's writings on governmentality are used to appraise managerial and nursing practices understood as exemplars of forms of government of people's health. An ethnographic study of organizational practices shaping contemporary home nursing care reveals that the everyday work of managers involves making particular forms of nursing practice visible. Through careful …
Patching Up the Holes: Analyzing the Work of Home Care
Bridging gaps in risk discourse: Home Care Case Management and Client Choices
This paper examines, and problematises, a well-entrenched conceptualisation of how home care case management practice works - that is, that case managers offer alternatives, and clients make choices. This understanding of practice is reinforced by organisational policy that states that clients have the right to live at risk if that is their choice. Analysis of data from a field study of home care practice in a western Canadian city, drawing predo…
Articulating the Role of Relationships in Access to Home Care Nursing at the End of Life
In this article, we draw on data collected from two samples of home care nurses to examine how relationships between nurses and family caregivers intersected with access to palliative home care nursing services. Participants referred to relationships as important for their practical benefits and for access to care: good relationships enhanced the nurse's ability to assess clients and families and fostered the family's trust in the nurse's care. A…
Means without ends: Justifying supportive home care for frail older people in Canada, 1990-2010
The challenges associated with ageing populations are very much on the policy and research agenda of many nations, with significant discussions focused on establishing appropriate, acceptable parameters of home care for those who are older and frail. This paper develops an analysis of changing justifications of home care in Canada (1990-2010) through examination of governmental and non-governmental home care policy documents and position papers, …
Theorizing accommodation in supportive home care for older people
Problematising care burden research
In this paper we use Alvesson and Sandberg's strategy of problematisation to analyse the assumptions embedded in the development and use of the concept of ‘care-giver burden’. We do this in order to develop an explanation as to why decades of research into the experience of providing home-based care to a family member with dementia has had little effect in relieving or reducing the ‘burden’ of that care. Though some part of this is undoubtedly po…
Chapter Two: Privileging Practices: Manifesto for “New Nursing Studies”
Seeing the collective: Family arrangements for care at home for older people with dementia
With the predicted growth in the number of people with dementia living at home across the globe, the need for home-based care is expected to increase. As such, it will be primarily family carers who will provide this crucial support to family members. Designing appropriate support for family carers is thus essential to minimise risks to their health, to prevent premature institutionalisation or poor care for persons with dementia, as well as to s…
Medicine (9 works) · Nursing (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Business (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (3 works) · Gerontology (3 works)