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.
Kapitel-Übersicht
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Frontmatter
Seiten 1 - 4 -
Content
Seiten 5 - 8 -
Acknowledgements
Seiten 9 - 10 -
Prologue
Seiten 11 - 14 -
Introduction
Seiten 15 - 26 -
Part 1: Personal Perspectives
Pretty Lit tle Angels
Seiten 29 - 30 -
At Home or Nowhere
Seiten 31 - 38 -
Home Interrupted
Seiten 39 - 52 -
A Place for Dad
Seiten 53 - 74 -
On Not Being Invisible
Seiten 75 - 88 -
Part 2: Working and Playing in the Care Home
Second Sitting
Seiten 91 - 92 -
Shelter in Place
Seiten 93 - 102 -
Long-Term Care for the Future
Seiten 103 - 110 -
Dementia (Re)performed
Seiten 111 - 126 -
"Hooray for You and Me"
Seiten 127 - 150 -
Part 3: Literary and Cultural Perspectives
My Mother Defines Purgatory
Seiten 153 - 154 -
The Third Age in the Third World
Seiten 155 - 174 -
Who Cares?
Seiten 175 - 190 -
Outside the Nursing-Home Narrative
Seiten 191 - 202 -
Love, Age, and Loyalty in Alice Munro's "The Bear Came over the Mountain" and Sarah Polley's Away from Her
Seiten 203 - 224 -
Part 4: Social and Historical Perspectives
Rising Fog
Seiten 227 - 228 -
An Enveloping Shadow?
Seiten 229 - 246 -
A New Home, A New Beginning, A New Identity
Seiten 247 - 264 -
Home Care Home
Seiten 265 - 282 -
Home, Hotel, Hospital, Hospice
Seiten 283 - 302 -
Authors
Seiten 303 - 310
27. März 2018, 310 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8394-3805-3
Dateigröße: 2.58 MB