THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME: PLACE AND CARE IN AN AGEING SOCIETY

THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME: PLACE AND CARE IN AN AGEING SOCIETY Christine Milligan (Editor) Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishers, 2009, 176 pp. (hardcover), $99.95

Christine Milligan was stimulated to research the field of care at home by experiences within her own family in England. How true it is that real life experience forces attention on major issues that otherwise are passed over as of vague concern only to society at large. Troubles in advanced age for both her in-laws revealed "support from the formal care services at that time can, at best, be described as disorganized and chaotic" (preface, p. ix).

Milligan has written a substantial, thorough analysis of the home …