Doing home
Palliative Care in 'Third Places
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3664866 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah Maslen (0000-0002-9215-6103, University of Canberra, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 8-24 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-02 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health Sociology Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1446-1242 • E-ISSN: 1839-3551 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14461242.2025.2464621 |
| PMID | 39957337 |
| OpenAlex | W4407667886 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 32 |
People living with life-limiting illnesses often talk about their ideal experience of 'care' as one where the care itself is hidden. Situated in the sociological literature on places and materialities of palliative care, in this paper I examine the hiding of care in a small, non-clinical respite house in an Australian city. Care is hidden by the at-homeness that staff, guests and volunteers alike all do. Working with Oldenburg's notion of 'third places,' I show how in this illness context the separation between home, work and other places in the community can blur, with respite services 'standing in' for the family home, or acting as a 'homely' extension of the hospital. Such places meet diverse needs beyond pure sociability as in Oldenburg's original conceptualisation
Media studies · Palliative care · Political science · Project commissioning · Public relations · Publishing · Sociology · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
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A third place in the everyday lives of people living with cancer
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The third place
Bringing our dying home
On Becoming an Ethnographer
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Knowledge, community and care
Keeping It Real
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Locating care at the end of life
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |