J Neil Henderson, Maria D. Vesperi

The Culture of Long Term Care (eBook, PDF)

Nursing Home Ethnography

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 1995
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313373541
• Artikelnr.: 37827079

Autorenporträt

J. NEIL HENDERSON, a medical anthropologist and noted authority on Alzheimer's disease and related disorders, is Associate Professor in Psychiatry and faculty in the Department of Community and Family Health, College of Public Health, and at the Suncoast Gerontology Center, College of Medicine, University of South Florida. He has authored numerous articles on the cultural context of dementing disease and is the editor of the Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology. MARIA D. VESPERI, a cultural anthropologist, is Associate Professor of Anthropology at New College of the University of South Florida in Sarasota. She is a former member of the St. Petersburg Times editorial board and author of City of Green Benches: Growing Old In a New Downtown (1985).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Philip B. Stafford Introduction Perspective on Ethnographic
Methods, Analysis and Findings Nursing Home Research Comes of Age: Toward
an Ethnological Perspective on Long Term Care by Maria D. Vesperi
Perspective and Story in Nursing Home Ethnography by Jaber F. Gubrium
Qualitative Research as a Tool Revealing Inappropriate Medicalization of
Aging in Nursing Home Care by J. Neil Henderson You Say Respondent, I Say
Informant: What Stories Told by Informants Can Tell Us by Lisa Groger
Ethnography and the Nursing Home Ombudsman by Lynn D. Mason In and Out of
Bounds: The Ethics of Respect in Studying Nursing Homes by Joel Savishinsky
Ethics in the Nursing Home: Cases, Choices, and Issues by Renée Rose
Shields The Head Nurse as Key Informant: How Beliefs and Institutional
Pressure Structure Dementia Care by Athena McLean and Margaret Perkinson
Staff/Resident Life Assessing Types of Residential Accommodation for the
Elderly: Liminality and Communitas by Barbara Hornum Relatives as Trouble:
Nursing Home Aides and Patient's Families by Nancy Foner From the Inside
Out: The World of the Institutionalized Elderly by Bethel Ann Powers
Continuities and Discontinuities in the Life Course: Experience of Demented
Persons in a Residential Alzheimer's Facility by Myrna Silverman and Carol
McAllister References Index