Care Home Stories - Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Residential Care: (Aging Studies)
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Care Home Stories - Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Residential Care: (Aging Studies)

Care Home Stories - Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Residential Care: (Aging Studies)

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Sally Chivers (Author) Ulla Kriebernegg (Author)  

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Institutional care for seniors offers a cultural repository for fears and hopes about an aging population. Although enormous changes have occurred in how institutional care is structured, the legacies of the poorhouse still persist, creating panicked views of the nursing home as a dreaded fate. The paradoxical nature of a space meant to be both hospital and home offers up critical tensions for examination by age studies scholars. The essays in this book challenge stereotypes of institutional care for older adults, illustrate the changes that have occurred over time, and illuminate the continuities in the stories we tell about nursing homes.
Sally Chivers is a Full Professor in the Departments of English and Gender & Women's Studies at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, and a founding executive member of the Trent Centre for Aging and Society. Ulla Kriebernegg (Dr.) is an Assistant Professor at the Center for Inter-American Studies at the University of Graz, Austria. Her research interests include North American Literature and Cultural Studies, Interculturality and Migration Studies, Inter-American Studies, Transatlantic Educational Cooperation, and Age/Aging Studies.
  • Contributor: Sally Chivers
  • Imprint: Transcript Verlag
  • ISBN13: 9783837638059
  • Number of Pages: 420
  • Packaged Dimensions: 147x226x15mm
  • Packaged Weight: 666
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Transcript Verlag
  • Release Date: 2021-12-08
  • Series: Aging Studies
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Sally Chivers is a Full Professor in the Departments of English and Gender & Women's Studies at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, and a founding executive member of the Trent Centre for Aging and Society. Ulla Kriebernegg (Dr.) is an Assistant Professor at the Center for Inter-American Studies at the University of Graz, Austria. Her research interests include North American Literature and Cultural Studies, Interculturality and Migration Studies, Inter-American Studies, Transatlantic Educational Cooperation, and Age/Aging Studies.

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