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

by Sally Chivers (Editor), Ulla Kriebernegg (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783837638059
Publication date:	09/27/2017
Series:	Aging Studies
Pages:	310
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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 the director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Aging and Care (CIRAC) and an associate professor of American Studies at Universität Graz in Austria. In her research and teaching she focuses on North American literary and cultural studies, aging and care studies, and health humanities. She has taught internationally and has won several teaching and research awards.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 9

Prologue

The Push Betsy Struthers 13

Introduction

Care Home Stories: Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Residential Care Sally Chivers Ulla Kriehernegg 17

Part 1 Personal Perspectives

Pretty Little Angels Betsy Struthers 29

At Home or Nowhere

In Memoriam - Pat Sharp in Edmonton; Marretje van Herk in Edmonton; Robert Kroetsch in Leduc Aritha van Herk 31

Home Interrupted Monique Lanoix 39

A Place for Dad: One Family's Experience of For-Profit Care Amanda Barusch 53

On Not Being Invisible: Life in a Continuing Care Retirement Community Anne M. Wyatt-Brown 75

Part 2 Working and Playing in the Care Home

Second Sitting Betsy Struthers 91

Shelter in Place Laura Dunbar 93

Long-Term Care for the Future: Just What Is Real Anyway? Peter J. Whitehouse 103

Dementia (Re)performed: Interrogating Tensions between Relational Engagement and Regulatory Policies in Care Homes through Theatre Julia Gray Pia Kontos Sherry Dupuis Gail Mitchell Christine Jonas-Simpson 111

"Hooray for You and Me": The Story of a Theatre Group Aynsley Moorhouse 127

Part 3 Literary and Cultural Perspectives

My Mother Defines Purgatory Betsy Struthers 153

The Third Age in the Third World: Outsourcing and Outrunning Old Age to The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Amanda Ciafone 155

Who Cares?: The Terror of Dementia in Ian McEwan's Saturday Peter Simonsen 175

Outside the Nursing-Home Narrative: Race and Gender Exclusions in Green Grass, Running Water Patricia Life 191

Love, Age, and Loyalty in Alice Munro's "The Bear Came over the Mountain" and Sarah Polley's Away from Her Katrin Berndt Jennifer Henke 203

Part 4 Social and Historical Perspectives

Rising Fog Betsy Struthers 227

An Enveloping Shadow?: The Role of the Nursing Home in the Social Imaginary of the Fourth Age Chris Gilleard Paul Higgs 229

A New Home, A New Beginning, A New Identity: Old Age, Life Narrative and Self-Presentation in the Novel The Real Captain's Sea by Zvonko Todorovski Marija Geiger Zeman Zdenko Zeman Mirela Holy 247

Home Care Home: Reflections on the Differentiation of Space in Living and Care Settings Isabel Atzl Anamaria Depner 265

Home, Hotel, Hospital, Hospice: Conflicting Images of Long-Term Residential Care in Ontario, Canada James Struthers 283

Authors 303