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Care home stories: aging, disability, and long-term residential care

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.

ISBN
978-3-8394-3805-3
Extent
Seite(n): 310
Language
Englisch
Notes
Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet

Bibliographic citation
Aging Studies (14)

Subject
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
Soziologie, Anthropologie
Medizinsoziologie
Gerontologie, Alterssoziologie
Betreuung
alter Mensch
Lebensqualität
Pflegeheim
Medizin
Pflege
Erzählung
Identität
Alltag
Lebenslauf

Event
Herstellung
(who)
Chivers, Sally
Kriebernegg, Ulla
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
transcript Verlag
(where)
Deutschland, Bielefeld
(when)
2018

DOI
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-58521-7
Rights
GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
Last update
21.06.2024, 4:27 PM CEST

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Object type

  • Sammelwerk

Associated

  • Chivers, Sally
  • Kriebernegg, Ulla
  • transcript Verlag

Time of origin

  • 2018

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