Mary M. Free

The Private World of the Hermitage

Lifestyles of the Rich and Old in an Elite Retirement Home

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Produktbeschreibung

Mary Moore Free presents a new perspective on the literature of aging with her study of the rich, old, cognitively intact, powerful, formally retired, elite elders whose needs do not include nursing care. Living in a small private retirement home in urban Texas, the residents of The Hermitage continue to retain the power that they exercised in their active years by manipulating their environments, controlling inheritances, casting absentee ballots, and medicalizing their old age by forming partnerships with their doctors, thus relieving themselves of the personal responsibility of being old. In the expanding genre of retirement home ethnography, there is little on wealthy elders. Many who are able to give cogent life stories are unwilling to trade privacy for support of investigative studies. It is to Free's credit that she was able to win the residents' confidence and elicit another dimension of what institutionalized retirement can be like.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 443g
• ISBN-13: 9780897894142
• ISBN-10: 0897894146
• Artikelnr.: 22477093

Autorenporträt

MARY MOORE FREE is House Anthropologist and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Baylor Health Care System/Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. She has published over 20 articles in anthropological and medical journals and has made five educational films on what it means to be old and group dynamics.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction Key Theories and Background Literature of Being Old
and Living in Formal Retirement Old Age as an Achieved Status The Evolution
of Formal Retirement Living in the United States and Resources to Support
It The Corporate and Physical Environments of The Hermitage The Social
Environment of The Hermitage The Process of Adaptation as a Function of
Well-Being at The Hermitage The Process of Health Care as a Function of the
Well-Being of Being Well at The Hermitage Life at The Hermitage from the
Personal Perspectives of an Elderly Woman and an Elderly Man The Hermitage
as an Optimal Environment Appendix One: Occupancy Agreement Appendix Two:
Age-related Biophysiological Changes Bibliography Index