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Title: Gray Areas
Condition: New
Format: Hardback
Type: Hardback
Subtitle: Ethnographic Encounters With Nursing Home Culture
EAN: 9781930618312
ISBN: 9781930618312
Publisher: School of American Research Press,U.S.
Release Date: 30/01/2003
Description: This volume features ten scholars from anthropology, nursing, sociology, gerontology, human geography, and other disciplines who provide ethnographic case studies exploring critical care decision-making, models of care for people with Alzheimer's disease, the way residents cope with the limitations, indignities, and opportunities of nursing home life, the roles of family members and nursing home employees, and the formulation of assisted living.The authors offer sustained examinations of the settings, flow, and structure of life relationships in geriatric long-term care institutions, as well as significant innovations in ethnographic methods. Researchers, caregivers, and those attentive to their own quality of life as they age will find this book essential reading.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: Philip B. Stafford (Edited by)
Author: Philip B. Stafford
Genre: Society & Culture
Book Series: School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series
Release Year: 2003

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