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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: McLean, Athena,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Chapter One: Organic Sources, Signs, and Course of Dementia
• Chapter Two: Perspectives on Dementia and the Person
• Chapter Three: Historical Background to Dementia Caregiving and the Ethnographic Research Methodology
• Chapter Four: The Research Setting and the Residents
• Chapter Five: Historical and Cultural Context of Caregiving in Snow 1: Three Case Studies
• Chapter Six: Historical and Cultural Context of Caregiving in Snow 2: Three Case Studies
• Chapter Seven: Comparing Caregiving of Snow 1 with Snow 2
• Chapter Eight: Conclusions and Recommendations for Future Dementia Caregiving
• Chapter Nine: External Barriers to Quality Dementia Care
• Chapter Ten: Conclusion: Toward a New Vision of Dementia Care
• Appendix A: Linking Neuropathology to Specific Diseases
• Appendix B: Dementia as a Demographic Problem: Social and Policy Implications
• Appendix C: Contributions of Previous Ethnographic Studies to Nursing Home Research
• Appendix D: This Ethnography as a Journey
• Appendix E: Methodological Details
• Works Cited and Recommended Reading
• Index