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Autore: |
Wu Yongmei <1969->
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Titolo: |
The care of the elderly in Japan / / Yongmei Wu
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Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York, : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (243 p.) |
Disciplina: | 362.60952 |
Soggetto topico: | Social work with older people - Japan |
Older people - Services for - Japan | |
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Soggetto geografico: | 5.380 |
Classificazione: | 79.13 |
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"" | |
Sommario/riassunto: | This book, based on extensive fieldwork in a Japanese institution for the elderly, explores the whole issue of ageing and responses to it in Japan, and compares the Japanese approach in these matters with Western approaches. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The care of the elderly in Japan ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-134-35038-4 |
1-134-35039-2 | |
1-280-17709-8 | |
9786610177097 | |
0-203-33303-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910825168203321 |
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