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Care home stories: aging, disability, and long-term residential care
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Abstract 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 ... mehr
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 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.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Betreuung; alter Mensch; Lebensqualität; Pflegeheim; Medizin; Pflege; Erzählung; Identität; Alltag; Lebenslauf
Klassifikation
Medizinsoziologie
Gerontologie, Alterssoziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
Langzeitpflege
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2018
Verlag
transcript Verlag
Erscheinungsort
Bielefeld
Seitenangabe
310 S.
Schriftenreihe
Aging Studies, 14
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839438053
ISBN
978-3-8394-3805-3
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung 4.0