At Home in a Nursing Home - An Ethnography of Movement and Care in Australia

Focusing on contemporary ideas about how aged care is provided, this book poses the question: How can people who are aged and frail live out the final phase of their lives with dignity? In seeking answers, the author examines what it means to be 'at home' in residential care in a novel and compassionate way. In an ethnographic study of how elderly residents can be given the right care, this book provides a new route into the bodily realities of ageing. It is a vital contribution to the search for alternative approaches to aged care provision.

About the author

Angela Rong Yang Zhang received the Australian Government Postgraduate Award and Emerging Researchers in Ageing Conference Bursary in 2015 and is currently Aged Care Research & Industry Innovation Australia (ARIIA) Grant supported researcher at College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University, Australia. Dr Zhang is also an Adjunct Fellow to the School of Social Sciences at The University of Adelaide

Product details

• Authors: Angela Rong Zhang, Angela Rong Yang Zhang
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9781800736641
• ISBN: 978-1-80073-664-1
• No. of pages: 218
• Series: Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations; Life Course, Culture and Aging
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Australia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Psychology of ageing, Social and cultural anthropology