| Description |
x, 251 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Philip B. Stafford -- Introduction / Maria D. Vesperi and J. Neil Henderson -- 1. Nursing Home Research Comes of Age: Toward an Ethnological Perspective on Long Term Care / Maria D. Vesperi -- 2. Perspective and Story in Nursing Home Ethnography / Jaber F. Gubrium -- 3. The Culture of Care in a Nursing Home: Effects of a Medicalized Model of Long Term Care / J. Neil Henderson -- 4. Health Trajectories and Long Term Care Choices: What Stories Told by Informants Can Tell Us / Lisa Groger -- 5. Ethnography and the Nursing Home Ombudsman / Lynn D. Mason -- 6. In and Out of Bounds: The Ethics of Respect in Studying Nursing Homes / Joel Savishinsky -- 7. Ethics in the Nursing Home: Cases, Choices, and Issues / Renee Rose Shield -- 8. The Head Nurse as Key Informant: How Beliefs and Institutional Pressures Can Structure Dementia Care / Athena McLean and Margaret Perkinson -- 9. Assessing Types of Residential Accommodations for the Elderly: Liminality and Communitas / Barbara Hornum -- 10. Relatives as Trouble: Nursing Home Aides and Patients' Families / Nancy Foner -- 11. From the Inside Out: The World of the Institutionalized Elderly / Bethel Ann Powers -- 12. Continuities and Discontinuities in the Life Course: Experiences of Demented Persons in a Residential Alzheimer's Facility / Myrna Silverman and Carol McAllister. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Nursing homes -- Anthropological aspects.
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Nursing homes -- Sociological aspects.
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Nursing home residents -- Social conditions.
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Aging -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Anthropology, Cultural.
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Older people.
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Nursing Homes -- United States.
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Long-Term Care -- psychology.
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Quality of Life.
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| Indexed Term |
Nursing homes |
| Added Author |
Henderson, J. Neil.
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Vesperi, Maria D.
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| ISBN |
0897894227 |
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0897894235 paperback |
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