We examine a “regime of anticipation” that has led mostly European entrepreneurs to build and manage new long-term care facilities situated around the city of Chiang Mai, Thailand, an emerging ‘hot spot’ in the relocation and provision of dementia care for an overseas clientele. Anticipations of crisis (and the explosive demand for dementia care) is exciting entrepreneurial imaginations in Thailand and, drawing on ethnographic field work and in-depth interviews, we examine how a transnational care market is being created and made to work. The owners and operators of these care facilities are experimenting with different care models and norms to create a transnational marketplace and to stretch the geographies of care. Yet dementia care is an inherently unstable commodity that might seem to resist outsourcing from the Global North to the Global South; as such, we pay close attention to the strategies deployed to try and stabilize the commodification of this most intimate labor. We detail how intimacy is constructed and circulated for dementia care to go global and the resources of trust required by owners and family members for this uneasy transnational economy to function.

我们研究了一种“预期制度”，这种制度导致大多数欧洲企业家在泰国清迈市周围建造和管理新的长期护理设施，这是为老年痴呆症患者搬迁和提供痴呆症护理的新兴“热点”。海外客户。对危机的预期（以及对痴呆症护理的爆炸性需求）在泰国激发了企业家的想象力，并且利用人种学实地工作和深入访谈，我们研究了跨国护理市场是如何被创建和运作的。这些护理设施的所有者和经营者正在尝试不同的护理模式和规范，以创建一个跨国市场并扩展护理的地理范围。然而，痴呆症护理本质上是一种不稳定的商品，似乎会抵制从全球北方外包到全球南方；因此，我们密切关注为试图稳定这种最亲密劳动力的商品化而采取的策略。我们详细介绍了如何构建和传播痴呆症护理走向全球的亲密关系，以及业主和家庭成员为使这种不安的跨国经济发挥作用所需的信任资源。