Living Before Dying

Imagining and Remembering Home
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-614-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 41, 172 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 412 g

Reihe: New Directions in Anthropology

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davies, Janette

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Altenpflege
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Alterssoziologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Palliativpflege, Sterbebegleitung, Hospiz

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Davies, Janette
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.