Care Home Stories : Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Residential Care

Care Home Stories Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Residential Care

Institutional care for seniors offers a cultural repository for fears and hopes about an aging population. Although enormous changes have occurred in how institutional care is structured, the legacies of the poorhouse still persist, creating panicked views of the nursing home as a dreaded fate. The...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2017: Frontlist Collection funder (funder)
Otros Autores: Chivers, Sally (Editor), Chivers, Sally editor (editor), Kriebernegg, Ulla editor
Formato: Electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2018
Bielefeld : [2018]
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Aging Studies
Materias:
Long-term Care; Institution; Identity; Life Course Narrative; Space; Old Age; Medicine; Aging Studies; Care; Sociology of Medicine; Cultural Studies;
Aging Studies.
Care.
Cultural Studies.
Identity.
Institution.
Life Course Narrative.
Medicine.
Old Age.
Sociology of Medicine.
Space.
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Descripción
Sumario:Institutional care for seniors offers a cultural repository for fears and hopes about an aging population. Although enormous changes have occurred in how institutional care is structured, the legacies of the poorhouse still persist, creating panicked views of the nursing home as a dreaded fate. The paradoxical nature of a space meant to be both hospital and home offers up critical tensions for examination by age studies scholars. The essays in this book challenge stereotypes of institutional care for older adults, illustrate the changes that have occurred over time, and illuminate the continuities in the stories we tell about nursing homes.
»Ein sehr interessantes, weiterführendes und nachdenklich machendes Buch. [Es wird] nicht nur ein akademisches Publikum angesprochen, vor allem die Praxis sollte die Lektüre nicht scheuen.« Hermann Brandenburg, www.socialnet.de, 27.02.2018
Descripción Física:1 online resource
ISBN:9783839438053
Acceso:Open access

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