Living Before Dying - Janette Davies

Living Before Dying

Imagining and Remembering Home

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Buch | Hardcover
172 Seiten
2017
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-614-0 (ISBN)
123,45 inkl. MwSt
This in-depth description of life in a nursing/care home, told in a year of daily conversations with patients and staff, highlights the daily care of frail or ill residents of extreme old age, emphasising interaction with care assistants and the different behaviours of men and women.
This in-depth description of life in a nursing/care home for 70 residents and 40 staff highlights the daily care of frail or ill residents between 80 and 100 years of age, including people suffering with dementia. How residents interact with care assistants is emphasised, as are the different behaviours of men and women observed during a year of daily conversations between the author, patients and staff, who share their stories of the pressures of the work. Living Before Dying shows a world where, in extreme old age, people have to learn how to cope with living communally.

Janette Davies (1950-2019) was a social and medical anthropologist at the International Gender Studies Centre, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford. Formerly a nurse/midwife she worked in international development in Bolivia, on the Thai/Cambodian border and Bangladesh. She conducted anthropological fieldwork in the UK, Zambia, Tanzania and Georgia.

Foreword

Lord Nigel Crisp



Acknowledgements



Introduction



Chapter 1. The Social and Behavioural Implications of People with Dementia

Chapter 2. Caring in Action - Women in the Workplace

Chapter 3. Social Organization within the Nursing Home

Chapter 4. Managing Activities for the Residents

Chapter 5. Ordering Disorder



Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie New Directions in Anthropology
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Pflege Altenpflege
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Sozialpädagogik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-78533-614-2 / 1785336142
ISBN-13 978-1-78533-614-0 / 9781785336140
Zustand Neuware
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