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

• Superior document: Aging Studies ; v.14
• Author: Chivers, Sally.
• TeilnehmendeR: Kriebernegg, Ulla.
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript,, 2018.; Ã2017.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Aging Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (310 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Content -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Part 1: Personal Perspectives -- Pretty Lit tle Angels -- At Home or Nowhere -- Home Interrupted -- A Place for Dad -- On Not Being Invisible -- Part 2: Working and Playing in the Care Home -- Second Sitting -- Shelter in Place -- Long-Term Care for the Future -- Dementia (Re)performed -- "Hooray for You and Me" -- Part 3: Literary and Cultural Perspectives -- My Mother Defines Purgatory -- The Third Age in the Third World -- Who Cares? -- Outside the Nursing-Home Narrative -- Love, Age, and Loyalty in Alice Munro's "The Bear Came over the Mountain" and Sarah Polley's Away from Her -- Part 4: Social and Historical Perspectives -- Rising Fog -- An Enveloping Shadow? -- A New Home, A New Beginning, A New Identity -- Home Care Home -- Home, Hotel, Hospital, Hospice -- Authors.