摘要: Domiciliary care takes place in a special social space: that of the home. Focusing on provision bathing community, article explores spatial ordering at home, unpacking series interlocking contrasts between public and private, their consequences for power dynamics care. These are explored terms ideology home; privacy within treatment body. Carework trespasses re-orders these divisions. The also contrasting site day centre. Baths centres private acts places, reversing symbolism they reveal some wider meanings bathing.