Caregiving Dilemma - Work in an American Nursing Home

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List of contents

PREFACE
1 Introduction
2 Setting the Context: The Nursing Home World
3 Patients: Pressures, Frustrations, and Satisfactions
4 Institutional Demands: The "Iron Cage" of the Nursing Home
5 Supervisors and the Nursing Hierarchy
6 Family Ties
7 Work Culture in the Nursing Home
8 Conclusion: Caregiving Dilemmas
NOTES
REFERENCES
INDEX

About the author

Nancy Foner is Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York, Purchase, and author of Ages in Conflict: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Inequality Between Old and Young (1984).

Summary

Along with increasing life expectancy comes the knowledge that many Americans will one day enter nursing homes. Drawing on field research and on theories of work and bureaucracy, this book presents a study of institutional care that focuses on nursing aides, the backbone in US nursing homes.

Product details

• Authors: Nancy Foner
• Assisted by: Nancy Foner (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.10.1995
• EAN: 9780520203372
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20337-2
• No. of pages: 190
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; USA, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Eldercare, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, MEDICAL / Nursing / General, MEDICAL / Allied Health Services / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Care of the elderly, United States of America, USA, Health systems & services, Nursing and ancillary services, Nursing & ancillary services, Health systems and services, MEDICAL / Nursing / Care Plans