{"id":95,"date":"2013-10-25T15:56:26","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T14:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/fitforthefuture\/?p=95"},"modified":"2013-10-25T16:00:53","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T15:00:53","slug":"where-the-heart-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/fitforthefuture\/2013\/10\/25\/where-the-heart-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Where the Heart is&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very productive meeting with Robert Telfer, Development Officer in West Lothian has highlighted a really salient point: that care homes are really\u00a0<strong>homes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><b><\/b>Ultimately, while residential care is a \u2018service\u2019, it has a different feel and different boundaries, because it is also <strong>home<\/strong> for its residents. Any changes to this setting need to carefully consider the impact on residents and their comfort. It must also involve them in design and decision making throughout\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">After all:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cHome is existential and experiential. It is where domestic lives are played out. Home is a myriad of things: a set of relationships with others, a statement about self image and identity, a place of privacy, a set of memories, and a social and psychological space.\u201d (Oldman 2002: 230)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>* Oldman, Christine (2002) <i>Understanding Care, Welfare and Community: A Reader <\/i>edited by Bacigalupo, V., Bornat, J., Bytheway, B., Johnson, J., Spurr, S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very productive meeting with Robert Telfer, Development Officer in West Lothian has highlighted a really salient point: that care homes are really\u00a0homes. Ultimately, while residential care is a \u2018service\u2019, it has a different feel and different boundaries, because it is also home for its residents. Any changes to this setting need to carefully consider &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/fitforthefuture\/2013\/10\/25\/where-the-heart-is\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Where the Heart is&#8230;.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/fitforthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/fitforthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/fitforthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/fitforthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/fitforthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/fitforthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/fitforthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/fitforthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/fitforthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}