Home care arrangements in Germany often only work because a foreign live-in carer is employed. The level of awareness of this supply model contrasts with its legally uncertain context. How are the working relationships with live-in carers for relatives of people in need of care structured? This work shows which patterns of knowledge and action guide the respondents.

Teach young children about different jobs around the house! Featuring colorful images, simple text, and an accessible glossary and index, this book helps kindergarten students develop foundational literacy skills. Early learners will be engaged and encouraged to share what jobs they do in their own home.

Continuing Wiley's American Medical Association health guides series, this sensitive, reliable resource provides step-by-step instructions and much-needed guidance and encouragement to anyone who is caring for a loved one at home. Fully illustrated throughout, the American Medical Association Guide to Home Caregiving discusses the general aspects of caregiving as well as the specific tasks required for caring for a person with a particular illness...

An in-depth look at the history and culture of mobile homes in the United States. In American popular imagination, the mobile home evokes images of cramped interiors, cheap materials, and occupants too poor or unsavory to live anywhere else. Since the 1940s and '50s, however, mobile home manufacturers have improved standards of construction and now present them as an affordable alternative to conventional site-built homes. Today one of every fourteen...