By Lucy Series.

“The community is a complicated place, easier to define by what it is not (a hospital) than what it is. Successive waves of post-carceral policy have deposited different care structures and settings on its shores. There are the first-wave quasi-institutions, which still predominate in the care of older people: residential care homes and nursing homes. Then there are second wave quasi-domestic services, aspiring to break free of our institutional heritage: ‘supported living’, ‘independent living’, sheltered housing, and other kinds of ‘housing with support.”

Bristol University Press (2022) 318p.