The care of the elderly in Japan / / Yongmei Wu

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783974903321
• Autore: Wu Yongmei
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2004
• ISBN: 1-134-35038-4; 1-134-35039-2; 1-280-17709-8; 9786610177097; 0-203-33303-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (243 p.)
• Collana: Japan anthropology workshop series
• Classificazione: 79.13
• Disciplina: 362.60952
• Soggetti: Social work with older people - Japan; Older people - Services for - Japan; Bejaardenzorg; 5.380
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [212]-219) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Series preface""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Notes on language conventions and style""; ""Abbreviations""; ""1 Introduction""; ""Background information on ageing in Japan""; ""Demographic trends""; ""Social policy in an ageing society""; ""Changes in the family""; ""Research on institutions for the aged and Quality of Life""; ""Institutions for the elderly""; ""A conceptual framework: Quality of Life""; "" The culture of care: dependency and dependency on indulgence (amae)""; ""Ethnographic methodology""; ""Organisation of this book""; ""Notes""; ""2 The setting: Kotobuki""""Location and the physical layout""; ""Socio-demographic background of the residents""; ""Average age and length of residence""; ""ADL and health condition of the residents""; ""Reasons for institutionalisation""; ""Some figures""; ""Organisation and administration""; ""Staff and their duties""; ""Coming to the home""; ""Institutional care""; ""Daily lives in Kotobuki""; ""A day in Sazanka and Akashia""; ""A day in Aoba""; ""Notes""; ""3 The residents""; ""Narratives of five residents""; ""Toshiko Matsumoto""; ""Kazuo GotÅ?""; ""Haruko ; Sugiyama""; ""Chinseki Aoki""""Tsumako Yamaguchi""; ""Satisfaction, accomplishment and failure""; ""QOL and its factors""; ""Attitudes towards elderly care and institutionalisation""; ""Interpersonal relationships""; ""Religion""; ""Autonomy""; ""Dealing with impending death""; ""Notes""; ""4 The staff""; ""Narratives of four staff members""; ""Mr Masao ItÅ?: Director of the Nursing Department""; ""Ms Reiko Shinozaki: head matron in Sazanka""; ""Mrs Yumiko Suzuki: matron in Aoba""; ""Mrs Yoshi Yoshiwara: dietician""; ""Corporate culture of Kotobuki""; ""Career paths""; ""Satisfaction and dissatisfaction""""Gender""; ""Coping with stress""; ""Attitudes towards institutionalisation""; ""Views of institutional life and institution alisation""; ""Fairness in welfare institutions""; ""QOL and its factors""; ""Food and other material provisions""; ""Quality of care""; ""Recreational programmes and events""; ""Family""; ""Others""; ""Notes""; ""5 The visitors""; ""Volunteers""; ""Mr Atsushi Tanizaki""; ""Family""; ""Trainee students and other visitors""; ""Motives, rewards and emotional costs""; ""Motivation: reciprocity and altruism""; ""Rewards and emotional cost""""Attitude towards institutional life""; ""Notes""; ""6 A problematic issue in Kotobuki ""; ""Problem 1: Discrimination""; ""Conflicts between psychiatric patients and normal elderly residents""; ""Mental patients and prejudice towards them in institutions""; ""Problem 2: Silent resistance""; ""Interpersonal conflicts in Sazanka: two examples""; ""Mrs Fukushima""; ""Miss Hiraoka""; ""Strategies for interpersonal conflict management""; ""Notes""; ""7 Beyond the homes ""; ""Staff attitudes towards the LTCI programme""; ""Effects on the management and the people of Kotobuki""