Care Home Stories

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-8376-3805-9
Verlag: transcript Verlag

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 310 Seiten, Kartoniert, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 484 g

Reihe: Aging Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chivers, Sally

Kriebernegg, Ulla

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Krankenpflege
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Soziologie & Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Alterssoziologie

Über Autor(innen)

Kriebernegg, Ulla
Ulla Kriebernegg ist Professorin für kulturwissenschaftliche Alterns- und Care-Forschung und Amerikanistin an der Universität Graz.

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 & Society.
Ulla Kriebernegg is an Associate Professor at the Department of American Studies at the University of Graz, Austria, and executive board member of the European Network in Aging Studies.