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

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

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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
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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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter 1 Content 5 Acknowledgements 9 Prologue 11 Introduction 15 Pretty Lit tle Angels 29 At Home or Nowhere 31 Home Interrupted 39 A Place for Dad 53 On Not Being Invisible 75 Second Sitting 91 Shelter in Place 93 Long-Term Care for the Future 103 Dementia (Re)performed 111 "Hooray for You and Me" 127 My Mother Defines Purgatory 153 The Third Age in the Third World 155 Who Cares? 175 Outside the Nursing-Home Narrative 191 Love, Age, and Loyalty in Alice Munro's "The Bear Came over the Mountain" and Sarah Polley's Away from Her 203 Rising Fog 227 An Enveloping Shadow? 229 A New Home, A New Beginning, A New Identity 247 Home Care Home 265 Home, Hotel, Hospital, Hospice 283 Authors 303

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