Abstract While much literature has focused on the meaning of home, relatively little has been conducted on homemaking in later life. This paper demonstrates the importance of time in conceptualizations of home. Using an extensive case study from a multi-interview study with eight older people in England, it is shown that gardening can form the basis of a temporal framework which structures a life. Importantly, gardening can seem essential in homemaking and a reason not to move to residential living. This paper builds on literature that suggests home is a process and that people’s conceptualization and experience of home develop throughout their lives. As ageing and dying have become long and complicated processes, it is argued older people may find this challenging as this makes it difficult to prepare for the end of life.

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家务劳动、暂时性和晚年生活

摘要 虽然很多文献都关注家的意义，但对晚年家政的研究相对较少。本文论证了时间在家庭概念化中的重要性。使用来自英格兰八名老年人的多次访谈研究的广泛案例研究，表明园艺可以构成构建生活的时间框架的基础。重要的是，园艺在家庭制作中似乎必不可少，也是不搬到住宅生活的理由。本文建立在文献的基础上，这些文献表明家是一个过程，人们对家的概念化和体验在他们的一生中不断发展。随着衰老和死亡成为漫长而复杂的过程，有人认为老年人可能会觉得这具有挑战性，因为这使得他们难以为生命的终结做好准备。