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Record Nr.

UNISA996308778303316

Autore

Chivers Sally

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2018

ISBN

3-8394-3805-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Aging Studies ; 14

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.



»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