Caring in space
The boundaries between public and private spaces in Finnish adult foster care homes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11202176 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emilia Leinonen (0000-0001-6572-9060, University of Jyväskylä, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1184-1201 |
| Publication date | 2021-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ageing and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0144-686X • E-ISSN: 1469-1779 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0144686x19001831 |
| OpenAlex | W3000472142 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 35 |
The purpose of this article is to explore a hybrid community-based form of care for older people called adult foster care. In the article, the nature of the foster care home as a place of care is explored from the foster carers’ point-of-view. It is based on an interview study of 12 foster carers. In this article, the theoretical frameworks from human geography and work–family research are combined in order to analyse the boundaries between private family-life and public work-life in the particular space of the foster care home. The research questions are: What kinds of public and private spaces exist in adult foster care homes? What kinds of boundaries separate (a) the public and private spaces and (b) the foster care home and the outside world? The findings suggest that foster care homes are very complex socio-spatial places of care, in which the questions of power (who can do what and when in a certain space), the re-organisation of home, and the division of private and public spaces all contest the idea of home as a mere ‘safe haven’ from the pressures of work life. Different boundaries and boundary management strategies enabled the foster carers to regard their place of living and working as their home, even though it had altered to a place of care of ‘strangers’
Boundary (topology) · Business · Care work · CONTEST · Foster care · Order (exchange) · Political science · Power (physics) · Private space · Public relations · Public space · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Work (physics) · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Law · Medicine · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Nursing
Space and place
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Change in European care arrangements
Change in European care arrangements
Home and Work
Tensions and resilience
The home as a site for long-term care
Gender and the Caring Dimension of Welfare States
Older people receiving family-based support in the community
Social rights and employment rights related to family care
Doing home”
Eldercare Service Redesign in Finland
Space and Place
Home and Work
Work/Family Border Theory
Bearing the burden’
Using thematic analysis in psychology
A critical examination of home care
Daily geographies of caregivers
Changing geographies of care
From Home to 'Home
The space between
Situating 'Home' at the Nexus of the Public and Private Spheres
The personal significance of home
The spatial ordering of care
Care as a Good for Social Policy
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |