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Care Home Stories: Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Residential Care

By Sally Chivers (Editor), Ulla Kriebernegg (Editor)
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By Sally Chivers (Editor), Ulla Kriebernegg (Editor)
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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...

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