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 poor house still persist, creating panicked views of the nursing home as a dreaded fate. The...

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Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Bielefeld, Germany : Transcript Verlag, 2017.
Series:	Aging studies ; volume 14.
Subjects:	Age groups. Age groups: adults. Age groups: the elderly. Social groups. Society and culture: general. Society and social sciences Society and social sciences. People with disabilities > Institutional care. People with disabilities > Long-term care. Old age in literature. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology. Aging Studies Care Cultural Studies Identity Institution Life Course Narrative Long-term Care Medicine Old Age Sociology Sociology of Medicine Space Electronic books.
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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 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.
Item Description:	Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	1 online resource.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9783839438053 3839438055