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...

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Other Authors:	Chivers, Sally (Editor), Kriebernegg, Ulla (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	In English.
Published:	Bielefeld : Transcript-Verlag, [2018]
Series:	Aging studies ; 14.
Subjects:	People with disabilities > Institutional care. People with disabilities > Long-term care. Old age in literature. Personnes handicapées > Soins en institutions. Personnes handicapées > Soins de longue durée. Vieillesse dans la littérature. Age groups: the elderly. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gerontology. Old age in literature People with disabilities > Institutional care People with disabilities > Long-term care Aging Studies. Care. Cultural Studies. Identity. Institution. Life Course Narrative. Medicine. Old Age. Sociology of Medicine. Space. Electronic books. technical reports. Technical reports Technical reports. Rapports techniques.
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Care home stories : aging, disability, and long-term residential care /

Published 2017

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