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Living Before Dying : Imagining and Remembering Home / Janette Davies.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: New Directions in Anthropology ; 41Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (172 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781785336140
  • 9781785336157
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.16 23/eng/20230216
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- 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 Organisation within the Nursing Home -- Chapter 4 Managing Activities for the Residents -- Chapter 5 Ordering Disorder -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781785336157

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- 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 Organisation within the Nursing Home -- Chapter 4 Managing Activities for the Residents -- Chapter 5 Ordering Disorder -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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