Unpaid Work in Nursing Homes: Flexible Boundaries

Contents: 1. Introduction / Pat Armstrong and Marta Szebehely -- 2. Accessing Nursing Home Care: Family Members’ Unpaid Care Work in Ontario and Sweden  / Petra Ulmanen, Ruth Lowndes, and Jacqueline Choiniere -- 3. Body Work-That-Isn’t: Supporting Nursing Home Residents’ Autonomy in Self-Care and Sexual Expression / Susan Braedley -- 4. “They Make the Difference Between Survival and Living”: Social Activities and Social Relations in Long-Term Residential Care / James Struthers and Gudmund Ågotnes -- 5. Residents Who Care: Rethinking Complex Care and Disability Relations in Ontario Nursing Homes / Janna Klostermann -- 6. “Family Workers”: The Work and Working Conditions of Families in Nursing Homes / Christine Streeter -- 7. Staff Perspectives on Families’ Unpaid Work in Care Homes / Ruth Lowndes, Marta Szebehely, Gudmund Ågotnes, and Oddrunn Sortland -- 8. Contextual Conditions and Social Mechanisms in Rural Communities and Care Homes / Oddrunn Sortland, Petra Ulmanen, and James Struthers -- 9. Bringing the Outside In and the Inside Out: The Role of Institutional Boundaries in Nursing Homes / Frode F. Jacobsen and Gudmund Ågotnes -- 10. A Labour of Love Is Still Labour / Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong, and Marta Szebehely.