Living Before Dying
Imagining and Remembering Home
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2017
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-614-0 (ISBN)
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-614-0 (ISBN)
In-depth life in a nursing home
Researcher worked alongside care assistants
Long-term observation of people with dementia
Insight into residential care for people with dementia and their relatives
This in-depth description of life in a nursing/care home for 70 residents and 40 staff highlights the daily care of frail or ill residents between 80 and 100 years of age, including people suffering with dementia. How residents interact with care assistants is emphasised, as are the different behaviours of men and women observed during a year of daily conversations between the author, patients and staff, who share their stories of the pressures of the work. Living Before Dying shows a world where, in extreme old age, people have to learn how to cope with living communally.
Researcher worked alongside care assistants
Long-term observation of people with dementia
Insight into residential care for people with dementia and their relatives
This in-depth description of life in a nursing/care home for 70 residents and 40 staff highlights the daily care of frail or ill residents between 80 and 100 years of age, including people suffering with dementia. How residents interact with care assistants is emphasised, as are the different behaviours of men and women observed during a year of daily conversations between the author, patients and staff, who share their stories of the pressures of the work. Living Before Dying shows a world where, in extreme old age, people have to learn how to cope with living communally.
Janette Davies (1950-2019) was a social and medical anthropologist at the International Gender Studies Centre, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford. Formerly a nurse/midwife she worked in international development in Bolivia, on the Thai/Cambodian border and Bangladesh. She conducted anthropological fieldwork in the UK, Zambia, Tanzania and Georgia.
Foreword
Lord Nigel Crisp
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Social and Behavioural Implications of People with Dementia
Chapter 2. Caring in Action - Women in the Workplace
Chapter 3. Social Organization within the Nursing Home
Chapter 4. Managing Activities for the Residents
Chapter 5. Ordering Disorder
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.08.2017 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | New Directions in Anthropology |
| Zusatzinfo | Bibliography; Index |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Altenpflege |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78533-614-2 / 1785336142 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78533-614-0 / 9781785336140 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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