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

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 poor house still persist, creating panicked views of the nursing home as a dreaded fate. The...

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Other Authors: Chivers, Sally (Editor), Kriebernegg, Ulla (Editor)
Format: eBook
Published: Bielefeld, Germany transcript Verlag 20171101
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