Wandering the wards : an ethnography of hospital care and its consequences for people living with dementia /

"Wandering the Wards provides a detailed and unflinching ethnographic examination of life within the contemporary hospital. It reveals the institutional and ward cultures that inform the organisation and delivery of everyday care for one of the largest populations within them: people living wit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Featherstone, Katie (Author), Northcott, Andy (Author)
Corporate Author:	Taylor & Francis
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Routledge, 2020.
Series:	Routledge studies in health and medical anthropology.
Subjects:	Dementia > Patients > Care. Dementia > Patients > Care > Great Britain. Dementia Déments > Soins. Déments > Soins > Grande-Bretagne. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural Dementia > Patients > Care Great Britain Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

<P>1. Ward cultures of care; 2. Ward life; 3. Visibilities and invisibilities; 4. Recognition and attribution of dementia at the bedside; 5. Tightening of the timetables and the organisation of bedside care; 6. Bedside talk and communicating the "rules" of the ward; 7. Organisational cultures of containment, restriction and restraint; 8. Wandering the wards </P>