People, Care and Work in the Home

To enhance our understanding of the influence on the institution of home on health and wellbeing, this book offers the first multi-disciplinary, global and critical research investigations on the genuine challenges and considerations facing homes from operational, economic, spatial, social and wellbeing perspectives.

Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem is Professor of Architecture and Director of the Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Global Heritage (CAUGH) at Nottingham Trent University. He is the 2014 recipient of the IASTE's Jeffrey Cook Award and author to numerous publications and books on the home's socio-spatial domains. Antonio Argandoña is Emeritus Professor of Economics and Business Ethics, IESE Business School. He has taught in the Universities of Barcelona, Málaga and Navarre. He has published numerous books and articles on macroeconomics, monetary economics and the home and family issues, including, The Home: Multidisciplinary Reflections (2018).

1. Home and Care in a Changing Society PART ONE: HOME AND CARE Feature Article 1: A Home for Later Life 2. From Care in the Home to the Transformation of Other Care Environments in Homes 3. The Healthy Home at Early Years 4. Unsafe Food Handling and Preparation in Poor Households 5. Responsible Citizenship and Our Common Home: Taking Care of the Natural Environment in Households and Beyond PART TWO: HOME AND PEOPLE Feature Article 2: My Home, My Life: Aspirations of People with Intellectual Disability for an Ordinary Home and an Ordinary Life 6. The Home as the Primary Source of Intellectual Development: From a Phenomenological and Anthropological Perspective 7. The Ageing of Parents in the Home of an Adult Person with Disability 8. Taking Care of Saver Disabled Child at Home: Caregivers Burden and Chance of a Personal Growth 9. A "Sense of Home": Perceptions and Expectations of Elderly People about Residential Care Facilities PART THREE: HOME AND WORK Feature Article 3: UpToYou, Emotional Education for Personal Growth in the Early Years: Educating Interior Dispositions 10. Work at the Home: Purpose, Function, and Care 11. Aligning the On-Demand Economy with the Home as a Workplace 12. Caring for the Home in Iberoamerica: A Cross-Country Comparison 13. Working from Home: Is Technology a Help or a Hindrance in Achieving Work/Life Harmonisation? 14. Singapore: Developing Life Skills and Changing Mindsets about and through Work in the Home