I read with interest your links. The concept of care as surveillance is one I feel enmeshed in as I support an ailing elder to ‘stay at home’ despite some credible risks. If I fail at surveillance, the elder is at risk. I am not sure this relationship is what either of us wants at this point. But, to the elder, anything is better than the dreaded ‘residential care’.
I read with interest your links. The concept of care as surveillance is one I feel enmeshed in as I support an ailing elder to ‘stay at home’ despite some credible risks. If I fail at surveillance, the elder is at risk. I am not sure this relationship is what either of us wants at this point. But, to the elder, anything is better than the dreaded ‘residential care’.