Care Home Stories: Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Residential Care

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2017

Care Home Stories

Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Residential Care

Edited by: Sally Chivers and Ulla Kriebernegg
Funded by: Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2017: Frontlist Collection

Volume 14 in the series Aging Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839438053

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About this book

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 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.

Author / Editor information

Sally Chivers is a Full Professor in the Departments of English and Gender & Women's Studies at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, and a founding executive member of the Trent Centre for Aging & Society.
Ulla Kriebernegg is an Associate Professor at the Center for Inter-American Studies of the University of Graz, Austria, and chair of the European Network in Aging Studies.

Reviews

»Ein sehr interessantes, weiterführendes und nachdenklich machendes Buch. [Es wird] nicht nur ein akademisches Publikum angesprochen, vor allem die Praxis sollte die Lektüre nicht scheuen.« Hermann Brandenburg, www.socialnet.de, 27.02.2018

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Content Open Access Download PDF	5
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	9
Prologue Betsy Struthers Open Access Download PDF	11
Introduction Sally Chivers and Ulla Kriebernegg Open Access Download PDF	15
Part 1: Personal Perspectives
Pretty Lit tle Angels Betsy Struthers Open Access Download PDF	29
At Home or Nowhere In Memoriam – Pat Sharp in Edmonton; Marretje van Herk in Edmonton; Rober t Kroetsch in Leduc Aritha van Herk Open Access Download PDF	31
Home Interrupted Monique Lanoix Open Access Download PDF	39
A Place for Dad One Family’s Experience of For-Profit Care Amanda Barusch Open Access Download PDF	53
On Not Being Invisible Life in a Continuing Care Retirement Community Anne M. Wyatt-Brown Open Access Download PDF	75
Part 2: Working and Playing in the Care Home
Second Sitting Betsy Struthers Open Access Download PDF	91
Shelter in Place Laura Dunbar Open Access Download PDF	93
Long-Term Care for the Future Just What Is Real Anyway? Peter J. Whitehouse Open Access Download PDF	103
Dementia (Re)performed Interrogating Tensions between Relational Engagement and Regulatory Policies in Care Homes through Theatre Julia Gray, Pia Kontos, Sherry Dupuis, Gail Mitchell and Christine Jonas-Simpson Open Access Download PDF	111
“Hooray for You and Me” The Story of a Theatre Group Aynsley Moorhouse Open Access Download PDF	127
Part 3: Literary and Cultural Perspectives
My Mother Defines Purgatory Betsy Struthers Open Access Download PDF	153
The Third Age in the Third World Outsourcing and Outrunning Old Age to The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Amanda Ciafone Open Access Download PDF	155
Who Cares? The Terror of Dementia in Ian McEwan’s Saturday Peter Simonsen Open Access Download PDF	175
Outside the Nursing-Home Narrative Race and Gender Exclusions in Green Grass, Running Water Patricia Life Open Access Download PDF	191
Love, Age, and Loyalty in Alice Munro’s “The Bear Came over the Mountain” and Sarah Polley’s Away from Her Katrin Berndt and Jennifer Henke Open Access Download PDF	203
Part 4: Social and Historical Perspectives
Rising Fog Betsy Struthers Open Access Download PDF	227
An Enveloping Shadow? The Role of the Nursing Home in the Social Imaginary of the Four th Age Chris Gilleard and Paul Higgs Open Access Download PDF	229
A New Home, A New Beginning, A New Identity Old Age, Life Narrative and Self-Presentation in the Novel The Real Captain’s Sea by Zvonko Todorovski Marija Geiger Zeman, Zdenko Zeman and Mirela Holy Open Access Download PDF	247
Home Care Home Reflections on the Differentiation of Space in Living and Care Settings Isabel Atzl and Anamaria Depner Open Access Download PDF	265
Home, Hotel, Hospital, Hospice Conflicting Images of Long-Term Residential Care in Ontario, Canada James Struthers Open Access Download PDF	283
Authors Open Access Download PDF	303

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 310
Keywords: Institution; Identity; Life Course Narrative; Space; Old Age; Medicine; Aging Studies; Care; Sociology of Medicine; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: March 27, 2018
ISBN: 9783839438053