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

• Tác giả: Sally Chivers, Ulla Kriebernegg
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-3839438053
• Thông tin xuất bản: Bielefeld, Germany : transcript Verlag, 2017
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 237662
• Chủ đề: 1. Age groups: the elderly

Tóm tắt

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 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.