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Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction 1 -- 2 Geographical Perspectives on Health 9. -- 3 Policy and Place: An Historical Geography of Caring 30 -- 4 Constructing the Conceptual Framework 54 -- 5 Landscapes of Care: Issues of Design and Implementation 81 -- 6 A Geography of Care Restructuring: The Voluntary 111 -- Experience -- 7 Exploring Geographies of Informal Caring 164 -- 8 The Private Sector and a Privatised Geography of Caring 194 -- 9 Statutory:Influences on the Geography of Caring 209 -- 10 A Geography of Care 241 -- 11 Conclusion 265 -- 12 Epilogue 270 -- Bibliography 273 -- Index 287

Contemporary landscapes of welfare: the 'voluntary turn'? / Christine Milligan and David Conradson -- A 'new institutional fix'?: the 'community turn' and the changing role of the voluntary sector / Rob Macmillan and Alan Townsend -- Renewal or relocation?: social welfare, voluntarism and the city / Christine Milligan and Nicholas R. Fyfe -- Voluntarism and new forms of governance in rural communities / Bill Edwards and Michael Woods -- New times, new relationships: mental health, primary care and public health in New Zealand / Pauline Barnett and J. Ross Barnett -- Informal and voluntary care in Canada: caught in the act? / Mark W. Skinner and Mark W. Rosenberg -- Competition, adaptation and resistance: (re)forming health organisations in New Zealand's third sector / Susan Owen and Robin Kearns -- The difference of voluntarism: the place of voluntary sector care homes for older Jewish people in the United Kingdom / Oliver Valins -- Values, practices and strategic divestment: Christian social service organisations in New Zealand / David Conradson -- Faith-based organisations and welfare provision in Northern Ireland and North America: whose agenda? / Derek Bacon -- Government restructuring and settlement agencies in Vancouver: bringing advocacy back in / Gillian Creese -- Developing voluntary community spaces and ethnicity in Sydney, Australia / Walter F. Lalich -- The voluntary spaces of charity shops: workplaces or domestic spaces? / Liz Parsons -- The changing landscape of voluntary sector counselling in Scotland / Liz Bondi -- Volunteering, geography and welfare: a multilevel investigation of geographical variations in voluntary action /John Mohan ... [et al.] -- Reflections on landscapes of voluntarism / David Conradson and Christine Milligan

The provision of 'distant' care to older people living at home through telecare technologies is often contrasted negatively to hands-on, face-to-face care: telecare is seen as a loss of care, a dehumanization. Here we challenge this view, arguing that teleoperators in telecare services do provide care to older people, often at significant emotional cost to themselves. Based on a European Commission-funded ethnographic study of two English telecare monitoring centres, we argue that telecare is not 'disembodied' work, but a form of care performed through the use of voice, knowledge sharing and emotional labour or self-management. We also show, in distinction to discourses promoting telecare in the UK, that successful telecare relies on the existence of social networks and the availability of hands-on care. Telecare is not a substitute for, or the opposite of, hands-on care but is at its best interwoven with it.