Gray Areas : Ethnographic Encounters with Nursing Home Culture
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
193061831X
ISBN-13
9781930618312
Publisher
SAR Press
Imprint
School of American Research Press,U.S.
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 30th, 2003
Print length
336 Pages
Weight
680 grams
Dimensions
22.60 x 17.00 x 2.70 cms
Product Classification:
Society and culture: generalSociety & culture: general
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This volume features ten scholars from anthropology, nursing, sociology, gerontology, human geography, and other disciplines who provide ethnographic case studies exploring critical care decision-making, models of care for people with Alzheimer's disease, the way residents cope with the limitations, indignities, and opportunities of nursing home life, the roles of family members and nursing home employees, and the formulation of assisted living.The authors offer sustained examinations of the settings, flow, and structure of life relationships in geriatric long-term care institutions, as well as significant innovations in ethnographic methods. Researchers, caregivers, and those attentive to their own quality of life as they age will find this book essential reading.
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