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Record Nr.

UNINA9910263843203321

Titolo

Care Home Stories : Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Residential Care / Sally Chivers, Ulla Kriebernegg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2018

2018, c2017

ISBN

9783839438053

3839438055

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Aging Studies

Disciplina

300

Soggetti

Long-term Care

Institution

Identity

Life Course Narrative

Space

Old Age

Medicine

Aging Studies

Care

Sociology of Medicine

Cultural Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.

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