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Care Home Stories Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Residential Care / Ulla Kriebernegg, Sally Chivers.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social sciences.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (312 pages)
- Other Title:
- Knowledge Unlatched.
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld, Germany : transcript Verlag, 2017.
- System Details:
- text file
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- KU Select 2017: Front list Collection
- BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 101223
- ISBN:
- 9783839438053
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