Care Home Stories: Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Residential Care

Care Home Stories: Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Residential Care
ISBN-10
3839438055
ISBN-13
9783839438053
Category
Social Science
Pages
310
Language
English
Published
2018-03-31
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Authors
Sally Chivers, Ulla Kriebernegg

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.

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