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An Ethnography of Movement and Care in Australia

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Oct 25, 20221 min read

Feeling at home in a nursing home: Enhancing wellbeing through movement and care

Delighted to share my post on the ARIIA (Aged Care Research & Industry Innovation Australia) blog 😊: https://www.ariia.org.au/knowledge-...

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Jul 30, 20221 min read

About the book

At Home in a Nursing Home: An Ethnography of Movement and Care inAustralia Where is home for frail elderly people who live out the final...

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Jul 30, 20221 min read

Book cover design, inspired by Tim Ingold's Foreword

“… for humans as for trees, ‘body’ is really just shorthand for a plethora of movements and processes, like lines tightly bundled...

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Jul 30, 20221 min read

The book’s context of aged care crisis in Australia

This book is contextualised in the recent aged care crisis in Australia, with references to the investigations of the Oakden Aged Persons...

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Mar 22, 20211 min read

Moving, observing and describing in the nursing home

In this fieldwork-based study, I aimed to acquire a deep understanding of whether and how elderly Australians could feel at home in a...

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Mar 22, 20211 min read

Structure of the book

Part One demonstrates that walking is not an action performed by an isolated individual body; it is an activity entwined with the care...

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Flinders University

Adelaide, South Australia