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This chapter investigates how (recent) Norwegian public policy papers narrate home making and care for the frail elderly, and how this resonates with the diverse wishes and needs of older people themselves. The policy papers demonstrate an increased stress on ‘ageing at home’, but what home means is sparsely dealt with. This trend encounters another policy trend, a so-called housing-oriented model, that aims to move away from a traditional medicalized model of older people’s care towards a more holistic orientation. While such an approach goes hand in hand with an ideal of active participation of older people in the design and carrying out of services, the presence of perspectives of older people in the policy documents may be questioned. The way the policy papers deal with home making and home care is as much characterized by what is left out as what is present.
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Government policy documents may be in the form of ‘white papers’ or ‘green papers’. White papers are authoritative documents for guiding, problem solving and decision making, while green papers have the status of government proposals.
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Institutions labelled ‘other nursing and health institutions’ by Statistics Norway are, in practice, mostly nursing homes.
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Also frequently labelled ‘care housing’ or ‘assisted living’.
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The acting of words and utterances upon the feelings and thoughts of the audience.
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Jacobsen, F.F. (2020). The Imaginaries of Home Making and Home Care in Public Policies. In: Pasveer, B., Synnes, O., Moser, I. (eds) Ways of Home Making in Care for Later Life. Health, Technology and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0406-8_5
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