Care Home Stories : Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Residential Care /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Chivers, Sally (Editor ), Kriebernegg, Ulla (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript-Verlag, [2018]
Colección:Aging studies ; 14.
Temas:
People with disabilities > Institutional care.
People with disabilities > Long-term care.
Old age in literature.
Personnes handicapées > Soins en institutions.
Personnes handicapées > Soins de longue durée.
Vieillesse dans la littérature.
Age groups: the elderly.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gerontology.
Old age in literature
People with disabilities > Institutional care
People with disabilities > Long-term care
Aging Studies.
Care.
Cultural Studies.
Identity.
Institution.
Life Course Narrative.
Medicine.
Old Age.
Sociology of Medicine.
Space.
technical reports.
Technical reports
Technical reports.
Rapports techniques.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Content
  • Acknowledgements
  • Prologue / Struthers, Betsy
  • Introduction / Chivers, Sally / Kriebernegg, Ulla
  • Part 1: Personal Perspectives
  • Pretty Lit tle Angels / Struthers, Betsy
  • At Home or Nowhere / Herk, Aritha van
  • Home Interrupted / Lanoix, Monique
  • A Place for Dad / Barusch, Amanda
  • On Not Being Invisible / Wyatt-Brown, Anne M.
  • Part 2: Working and Playing in the Care Home
  • Second Sitting / Struthers, Betsy
  • Shelter in Place / Dunbar, Laura
  • Long-Term Care for the Future / Whitehouse, Peter J.
  • Dementia (Re)performed / Gray, Julia / Kontos, Pia / Dupuis, Sherry / Mitchell, Gail / Jonas-Simpson, Christine
  • "Hooray for You and Me" / Moorhouse, Aynsley
  • Part 3: Literary and Cultural Perspectives
  • My Mother Defines Purgatory / Struthers, Betsy
  • The Third Age in the Third World / Ciafone, Amanda
  • Who Cares? / Simonsen, Peter
  • Outside the Nursing-Home Narrative / Life, Patricia
  • Love, Age, and Loyalty in Alice Munro's "The Bear Came over the Mountain" and Sarah Polley's Away from Her / Berndt, Katrin / Henke, Jennifer
  • Part 4: Social and Historical Perspectives
  • Rising Fog / Struthers, Betsy
  • An Enveloping Shadow? / Gilleard, Chris / Higgs, Paul
  • A New Home, A New Beginning, A New Identity / Zeman, Marija Geiger / Zeman, Zdenko / Holy, Mirela
  • Home Care Home / Atzl, Isabel / Depner, Anamaria
  • Home, Hotel, Hospital, Hospice / Struthers, James
  • Authors

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