Troubling Gifts of Care: Vulnerable Persons and Threatening Exchanges in Chicago's Home Care Industry.

By tracing the transformations of troubling exchanges in paid home care, this article examines how differently positioned individuals strive to build caring relations within potentially restrictive regimes of care. In paid home care in Chicago, older adults and their workers regularly participate in...

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Published in:	Medical Anthropology Quarterly Vol. 28; no. 4; pp. 599 - 616
Main Author:	Buch, Elana D.
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Dec2014
Subjects:	United States Exchange Abuse of older people Ethics Home care services Corruption Home care services laws
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost