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Title
Care Home Stories : Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Residential Care
Subject
sociology of medicine
Dementia--Nursing
Description
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 poor house 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.
Creator
Chivers, Sally (editor)
Kriebernegg, Ulla (editor)
Source
https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/31818
Publisher
Publisher
transcript Verlag
transcript Verlag
Publisher website
http://www.transcript-verlag.de
http://www.transcript-verlag.de
Date
2017
Contributor
Djuwarnik
Rights
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
Format
pdf
Language
English
Type
Textbooks
Identifier
ISBN
9783839438053
9783839438053
Coverage
Age groups
the elderly