UID:
almahu_9949301445902882
Format:
1 online resource (310 pages)
ISBN:
9783839438053
Series Statement:
Aging Studies ; v.14
Note:
Intro -- Content -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Part 1: Personal Perspectives -- Pretty Lit tle Angels -- At Home or Nowhere -- Home Interrupted -- A Place for Dad -- On Not Being Invisible -- Part 2: Working and Playing in the Care Home -- Second Sitting -- Shelter in Place -- Long-Term Care for the Future -- Dementia (Re)performed -- "Hooray for You and Me" -- Part 3: Literary and Cultural Perspectives -- My Mother Defines Purgatory -- The Third Age in the Third World -- Who Cares? -- Outside the Nursing-Home Narrative -- Love, Age, and Loyalty in Alice Munro's "The Bear Came over the Mountain" and Sarah Polley's Away from Her -- Part 4: Social and Historical Perspectives -- Rising Fog -- An Enveloping Shadow? -- A New Home, A New Beginning, A New Identity -- Home Care Home -- Home, Hotel, Hospital, Hospice -- Authors.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Chivers, Sally Care Home Stories Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag,c2018
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
