| Care Home Stories: Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Residential Care Contributor(s): Chivers, Sally (Editor), Kriebernegg, Ulla (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3837638057 ISBN-13: 9783837638059 Publisher: Transcript Publishing OUR PRICE: $39.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Disease & Health Issues - Medical | Nursing - Research & Theory - Social Science | Gerontology |
| Series: Aging Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.8" W x 8.8" (1.10 lbs) 420 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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 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. |