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Care Home Stories : Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Residential Care / Ulla Kriebernegg, Sally Chivers.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Aging studies ; 14.Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript-Verlag, [2018]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 3839438055
  • 9783839438053
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 300 23
LOC classification:
  • H40.A2
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Content -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue / Struthers, Betsy -- Introduction / Chivers, Sally / Kriebernegg, Ulla -- Part 1: Personal Perspectives -- Pretty Lit tle Angels / Struthers, Betsy -- At Home or Nowhere / Herk, Aritha van -- Home Interrupted / Lanoix, Monique -- A Place for Dad / Barusch, Amanda -- On Not Being Invisible / Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. -- Part 2: Working and Playing in the Care Home -- Second Sitting / Struthers, Betsy -- Shelter in Place / Dunbar, Laura -- Long-Term Care for the Future / Whitehouse, Peter J. -- Dementia (Re)performed / Gray, Julia / Kontos, Pia / Dupuis, Sherry / Mitchell, Gail / Jonas-Simpson, Christine -- "Hooray for You and Me" / Moorhouse, Aynsley -- Part 3: Literary and Cultural Perspectives -- My Mother Defines Purgatory / Struthers, Betsy -- The Third Age in the Third World / Ciafone, Amanda -- Who Cares? / Simonsen, Peter -- Outside the Nursing-Home Narrative / Life, Patricia -- Love, Age, and Loyalty in Alice Munro's "The Bear Came over the Mountain" and Sarah Polley's Away from Her / Berndt, Katrin / Henke, Jennifer -- Part 4: Social and Historical Perspectives -- Rising Fog / Struthers, Betsy -- An Enveloping Shadow? / Gilleard, Chris / Higgs, Paul -- A New Home, A New Beginning, A New Identity / Zeman, Marija Geiger / Zeman, Zdenko / Holy, Mirela -- Home Care Home / Atzl, Isabel / Depner, Anamaria -- Home, Hotel, Hospital, Hospice / Struthers, James -- Authors
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Content -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue / Struthers, Betsy -- Introduction / Chivers, Sally / Kriebernegg, Ulla -- Part 1: Personal Perspectives -- Pretty Lit tle Angels / Struthers, Betsy -- At Home or Nowhere / Herk, Aritha van -- Home Interrupted / Lanoix, Monique -- A Place for Dad / Barusch, Amanda -- On Not Being Invisible / Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. -- Part 2: Working and Playing in the Care Home -- Second Sitting / Struthers, Betsy -- Shelter in Place / Dunbar, Laura -- Long-Term Care for the Future / Whitehouse, Peter J. -- Dementia (Re)performed / Gray, Julia / Kontos, Pia / Dupuis, Sherry / Mitchell, Gail / Jonas-Simpson, Christine -- "Hooray for You and Me" / Moorhouse, Aynsley -- Part 3: Literary and Cultural Perspectives -- My Mother Defines Purgatory / Struthers, Betsy -- The Third Age in the Third World / Ciafone, Amanda -- Who Cares? / Simonsen, Peter -- Outside the Nursing-Home Narrative / Life, Patricia -- Love, Age, and Loyalty in Alice Munro's "The Bear Came over the Mountain" and Sarah Polley's Away from Her / Berndt, Katrin / Henke, Jennifer -- Part 4: Social and Historical Perspectives -- Rising Fog / Struthers, Betsy -- An Enveloping Shadow? / Gilleard, Chris / Higgs, Paul -- A New Home, A New Beginning, A New Identity / Zeman, Marija Geiger / Zeman, Zdenko / Holy, Mirela -- Home Care Home / Atzl, Isabel / Depner, Anamaria -- Home, Hotel, Hospital, Hospice / Struthers, James -- Authors

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.

In English.

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