Care Home Stories : Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Residential Care
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Contributors
Atzl, Isabel, Contributor
Barusch, Amanda, Contributor
Berndt, Katrin, Contributor
Chivers, Sally, Contributor
Chivers, Sally, Editor
Barusch, Amanda, Contributor
Berndt, Katrin, Contributor
Chivers, Sally, Contributor
Chivers, Sally, Editor
Published
Bielefeld : transcript Verlag,, [2018].
Format
eBook
ISBN
9783839438053
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Language
English
UPC
10.1515/9783839438053
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Description
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.
Funding Information
funded by Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2017: Frontlist Collection
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Language
In English.