ABSTRACT Compared to research on home in circumstances of aging, place and care, our knowledge about home in relation to couplehood is limited despite increases in the percentage of married and cohabiting older people in the UK. Specifically, our understanding of the experience and meaning of home for couples where one partner has dementia remains under-explored. This article presents a scoping review of published empirical literature to examine older couples’ experiences of home in dementia. The literature identified and reviewed through searching academic databases and Google Scholar is interdisciplinary and a thematic analysis suggests interactions of couplehood, home and dementia. To discuss these interactions, we use Bourdieu’s framework of field, capital, practice and habitus. We observe that habitus may gradually alter and fracture. But, in locating and supporting the performance of (adapted) everyday relationships and domestic practices, home has a distinct role in contributing to conserving habitus and in turn continuity of relationships and home. The gradual fracturing of habitus with the progression of dementia however also suggests that the continuity of relationships and home remain contingent, but this needs further investigation. It is an element of home futures that cannot remain invisible.

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保护习惯：家庭、夫妻关系和痴呆症

摘要 与在老龄化、地方和护理情况下的家庭研究相比，尽管英国已婚和同居老年人的百分比增加，但我们对家庭与夫妻关系的了解是有限的。具体而言，我们对其中一方患有痴呆症的夫妇的家庭体验和意义的理解仍未得到充分探索。本文对已发表的实证文献进行了范围审查，以检查老年夫妇在痴呆症中的家庭经历。通过搜索学术数据库和 Google Scholar 确定和审查的文献是跨学科的，主题分析表明夫妻、家庭和痴呆症之间存在相互作用。为了讨论这些相互作用，我们使用了布尔迪厄的场域、资本、实践和惯习框架。我们观察到习性可能会逐渐改变和破裂。但，在定位和支持（适应的）日常关系和家庭实践的表现方面，家在有助于保护惯习并进而促进关系和家庭的连续性方面发挥着独特的作用。然而，随着痴呆症的进展，习惯的逐渐破裂也表明关系和家庭的连续性仍然是偶然的，但这需要进一步调查。它是房屋期货的一个元素，不能保持隐形。但这需要进一步调查。它是房屋期货的一个元素，不能保持隐形。但这需要进一步调查。它是房屋期货的一个元素，不能保持隐形。