The ideas of reablement and their travel across time and space

Inspired by theories of ‘rhetorical frames’ and ‘travels of ideas’, this chapter investigates how ideas of reablement have travelled and materialised into similar policies, activities, and institutional practices of reablement within and across different world regions. Based on interviews with key informants and policy documents from three world regions, the chapter argues that the travelling of ideas is complex and characterised by circularity rather than linearity. Ideas focus on the sustainability of the long-term care systems and the local and national needs to find efficient and cost-saving approaches. The findings also indicate that transnational ideas of ‘successful ageing’, ‘active and healthy citizens’ have travelled to local and national practice, but also from local bottom-up initiatives to the agendas of supranational organisations.