Dementia, infrastructural failure, and new relations of transnational care in Thailand,Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

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Dementia, infrastructural failure, and new relations of transnational care in Thailand
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers ( IF 3.3 ) Pub Date : 2021-03-04 , DOI: 10.1111/tran.12445
Geraldine Pratt ₁ , Caleb Johnston ₂

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We draw on our ethnography of European-owned care facilities in Thailand, designed for persons from the global north living with dementia, to address the current crisis in dementia care in the global north. Neither cultural approaches (that celebrate a Thai propensity to care for aging people) nor economic critique (focused on the exploitative relations between global north and south) fully or accurately represent the practices of care in these facilities. We outline the skilled nature of the dementia care on offer there, as well as non-kin-based relations of care that develop over time, to excite our imaginations of what is possible within long-term care institutions in the global north. Focusing on skill addresses the chronic devaluation of elder care, and a close appraisal of the personal relations that develop in Thai transnational facilities displaces the family as the most appropriate locus of care. We frame this exploration within a notion of relational comparison, with the goal of cultivating a non-innocent politics of hope under conditions of infrastructural failure.

中文翻译：

泰国的痴呆症、基础设施故障和跨国护理的新关系

我们利用我们在泰国的欧洲人拥有的护理设施的民族志，这些设施专为来自全球北方的痴呆症患者而设计，以解决全球北方目前的痴呆症护理危机。文化方法（庆祝泰国照顾老年人的倾向）和经济批评（关注全球南北之间的剥削关系）都不能完全或准确地代表这些设施中的护理实践。我们概述了那里提供的痴呆症护理的熟练性质，以及随着时间的推移发展的非基于亲属的护理关系，以激发我们对全球北部长期护理机构的可能性的想象。专注于技能解决老年人护理的长期贬值，对泰国跨国机构发展的个人关系的密切评估使家庭成为最合适的护理场所。我们在关系比较的概念中构建了这种探索，目的是在基础设施失败的情况下培养一种非无辜的希望政治。

更新日期：2021-03-04

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