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Informationen zum Autor J Neil Henderson, Maria D. Vesperi Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
