| Description |
x, 251 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Philip B. Stafford -- Introduction / Maria D. Vesperi and J. Neil Henderson -- 1. Nursing Home Research Comes of Age: Toward an Ethnological Perspective on Long Term Care / Maria D. Vesperi -- 2. Perspective and Story in Nursing Home Ethnography / Jaber F. Gubrium -- 3. The Culture of Care in a Nursing Home: Effects of a Medicalized Model of Long Term Care / J. Neil Henderson -- 4. Health Trajectories and Long Term Care Choices: What Stories Told by Informants Can Tell Us / Lisa Groger -- 5. Ethnography and the Nursing Home Ombudsman / Lynn D. Mason -- 6. In and Out of Bounds: The Ethics of Respect in Studying Nursing Homes / Joel Savishinsky -- 7. Ethics in the Nursing Home: Cases, Choices, and Issues / Renee Rose Shield -- 8. The Head Nurse as Key Informant: How Beliefs and Institutional Pressures Can Structure Dementia Care / Athena McLean and Margaret Perkinson |
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9. Assessing Types of Residential Accommodations for the Elderly: Liminality and Communitas / Barbara Hornum -- 10. Relatives as Trouble: Nursing Home Aides and Patients' Families / Nancy Foner -- 11. From the Inside Out: The World of the Institutionalized Elderly / Bethel Ann Powers -- 12. Continuities and Discontinuities in the Life Course: Experiences of Demented Persons in a Residential Alzheimer's Facility / Myrna Silverman and Carol McAllister |
| Summary |
This is the only collection of its kind to offer an inside view of life and work in contemporary nursing homes with the purpose of developing a theory of the culture of long term care. The anthropological research in nursing homes presented here produces a seldom seen "native view" of patients, staff, and the day-to-day workings of American nursing homes. The use of ethnographic methods penetrates the reality barriers found in industry descriptions, muck-raking discourse, and general societal aversion toward nursing homes. The tensions found between and within staff culture and patient culture are explored in terms of adaptations to institutional life in the context of current policy and the larger American ageist culture |
| Analysis |
Nursing homes |
| Notes |
Includes index. Bibliography: p. 225-240 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Aging -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Nursing home patients -- Social conditions.
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Nursing homes -- Anthropological aspects.
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Nursing homes -- Social aspects.
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Nursing homes -- Sociological aspects.
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Homes for the Aged.
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Nursing Homes.
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Aging.
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Culture.
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Social Conditions.
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Social Environment.
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| SUBJECT |
United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
| Author |
Henderson, J. Neil.
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Vesperi, Maria D.
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| LC no. |
94042151 |
| ISBN |
0897894227 |
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0897894235 (paperback) |
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