The Person in Dementia : A Study of Nursing Home Care in the US / Athena McLean.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McLean, Athena, Author.

Series:

Broadview ethnographies & case studies

Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alzheimer's disease--Patients--Long-term care--United States.

Alzheimer's disease.

Alzheimer's disease--Patients--Long-term care--United States--Case studies.

Medical personnel and patient--United States.

Medical personnel and patient.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2020]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Winner of the Society for Medical Anthropology's 2009 New Millennium Award Imagine yourself in advanced age, forced to depend on others for all your basic needs. What would you want to retain of your personal life? This question is at the heart of a set of case studies that examine the lives of nursing home residents who were diagnosed with senile dementia. Based on two years of intensive comparative ethnographic study in a nursing home in a Northeastern American city, The Person in Dementia dramatically contrasts the outcomes of two approaches to dementia care for elders with severely disturbed behaviors: a task-oriented approach based on a biomedical view of disease progression and a flexible person-sustaining approach focusing on individual needs and communication. By emphasizing "personhood," which looks beyond physical and reasoning abilities to a person's will and relationship with others, McLean conceptualizes dementia care as a moral enterprise. She encourages innovative and compassionate elder care and accountability across the spectrum from direct care-givers to nursing home owners to those at the highest levels of government. McLean also offers a fine-tuned analysis of how relations among direct care-giving, professional, and administrative staff within a facility can dramatically affect the quality of dementia care. The book includes policy recommendations that are geared to long-term care administrators and policy-makers as well as to caregivers, families, and elders with dementia.

Contents:

""CHAPTER 6 Historical and Cultural Context of Caregiving in Snow 2: Three Case Studies""""CHAPTER 7 Comparing Caregiving of Snow 1 with Snow 2""; ""CHAPTER 8 Conclusions and Recommendations for Future Dementia Caregiving""; ""PART THREE looking ahead in dementia care""; ""CHAPTER 9 External Barriers to Quality Dementia Care""; ""CHAPTER 10 Conclusion: Toward a New Vision of Dementia Care""; ""Appendices""; ""Works Cited andRecommended Reading""; ""Index""; ""CHAPTER 6 Historical and Cultural Context of Caregiving in Snow 2: Three Case Studies""

""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""PART ONE theoretical and methodological considerations in dementia care""; ""CHAPTER 1 Organic Sources, Signs, and Course of Dementia""; ""CHAPTER 2 Perspectives on Dementia and the Person""; ""CHAPTER 3 Historical Background to Dementia Caregiving and the Ethnographic Research Methodology""; ""CHAPTER 4 The Research Setting and the Residents""; ""PART TWO ethnographic case studies and analyses""; ""CHAPTER 5 Historical and Cultural Context of Caregiving in Snow 1: Three Case Studies""

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

1-4426-0319-4

OCLC:

226374714