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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 ... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
caregiving; life career; care; identity; medicine; narrative; everyday life; elderly; nursing home; quality of life
Classification
Medical Sociology
Gerontology
Free Keywords
Langzeitpflege
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
310 p.
Series
Aging Studies, 14
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839438053
ISBN
978-3-8394-3805-3
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0