Care Home Stories : Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Residential Care / Sally Chivers, Ulla Kriebernegg
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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| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Aging Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Content 5 Acknowledgements 9 Prologue 11 Introduction 15 Pretty Lit tle Angels 29 At Home or Nowhere 31 Home Interrupted 39 A Place for Dad 53 On Not Being Invisible 75 Second Sitting 91 Shelter in Place 93 Long-Term Care for the Future 103 Dementia (Re)performed 111 "Hooray for You and Me" 127 My Mother Defines Purgatory 153 The Third Age in the Third World 155 Who Cares? 175 Outside the Nursing-Home Narrative 191 Love, Age, and Loyalty in Alice Munro's "The Bear Came over the Mountain" and Sarah Polley's Away from Her 203 Rising Fog 227 An Enveloping Shadow? 229 A New Home, A New Beginning, A New Identity 247 Home Care Home 265 Home, Hotel, Hospital, Hospice 283 Authors 303