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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 poor house still persist, creating panicked views of the nursing home as a dreaded fate. The...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bielefeld, Germany :
Transcript Verlag,
2017.
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| Colección: | Aging studies ;
volume 14 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements 9 Prologue The Push Betsy Struthers 13 Introduction Care Home Stories: Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Residential Care Sally Chivers Ulla Kriehernegg 17 Part 1 Personal Perspectives Pretty Little Angels Betsy Struthers 29 At Home or Nowhere In Memoriam
- Pat Sharp in Edmonton; Marretje van Herk in Edmonton; Robert Kroetsch in Leduc Aritha van Herk 31 Home Interrupted Monique Lanoix 39 A Place for Dad: One Family's Experience of For-Profit Care Amanda Barusch 53 On Not Being Invisible: Life in a Continuing Care Retirement Community Anne M. Wyatt-Brown 75 Part 2 Working and Playing in the Care Home Second Sitting Betsy Struthers 91 Shelter in Place Laura Dunbar 93 Long-Term Care for the Future: Just What Is Real Anyway? Peter J. Whitehouse 103 Dementia (Re)performed: Interrogating Tensions between Relational Engagement and Regulatory Policies in Care Homes through Theatre Julia Gray Pia Kontos Sherry Dupuis Gail Mitchell Christine Jonas-Simpson 111 "Hooray for You and Me": The Story of a Theatre Group Aynsley Moorhouse 127 Part 3 Literary and Cultural Perspectives My Mother Defines Purgatory Betsy Struthers 153 The Third Age in the Third World: Outsourcing and Outrunning Old Age to The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Amanda Ciafone 155 Who Cares?: The Terror of Dementia in Ian McEwan's Saturday Peter Simonsen 175 Outside the Nursing-Home Narrative: Race and Gender Exclusions in Green Grass, Running Water Patricia Life 191 Love, Age, and Loyalty in Alice Munro's "The Bear Came over the Mountain" and Sarah Polley's Away from Her Katrin Berndt Jennifer Henke 203 Part 4 Social and Historical Perspectives Rising Fog Betsy Struthers 227 An Enveloping Shadow?: The Role of the Nursing Home in the Social Imaginary of the Fourth Age Chris Gilleard Paul Higgs 229 A New Home, A New Beginning, A New Identity: Old Age, Life Narrative and Self-Presentation in the Novel The Real Captain's Sea by Zvonko Todorovski Marija Geiger Zeman Zdenko Zeman Mirela Holy 247 Home Care Home: Reflections on the Differentiation of Space in Living and Care Settings Isabel Atzl Anamaria Depner 265 Home, Hotel, Hospital, Hospice: Conflicting Images of Long-Term Residential Care in Ontario, Canada James Struthers 283.