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The Person in Dementia : A Study of Nursing Home Care in the US /
Winner of the Society for Medical Anthropology's 2009 New Millennium Award Imagine yourself in advanced age, forced to depend on others for all your basic needs. What would you want to retain of your personal life? This question is at the heart of a set of case studies that examine the lives of...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Peterborough, Ont. :
Broadview Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""PART ONE theoretical and methodological considerations in dementia care""; ""CHAPTER 1 Organic Sources, Signs, and Course of Dementia""; ""CHAPTER 2 Perspectives on Dementia and the Person""; ""CHAPTER 3 Historical Background to Dementia Caregiving and the Ethnographic Research Methodology""; ""CHAPTER 4 The Research Setting and the Residents""; ""PART TWO ethnographic case studies and analyses""; ""CHAPTER 5 Historical and Cultural Context of Caregiving in Snow 1: Three Case Studies""
- ""CHAPTER 6 Historical and Cultural Context of Caregiving in Snow 2: Three Case Studies""""CHAPTER 7 Comparing Caregiving of Snow 1 with Snow 2""; ""CHAPTER 8 Conclusions and Recommendations for Future Dementia Caregiving""; ""PART THREE looking ahead in dementia care""; ""CHAPTER 9 External Barriers to Quality Dementia Care""; ""CHAPTER 10 Conclusion: Toward a New Vision of Dementia Care""; ""Appendices""; ""Works Cited andRecommended Reading""; ""Index""; ""CHAPTER 6 Historical and Cultural Context of Caregiving in Snow 2: Three Case Studies""