TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davies,Janette
AU  - Crisp,Nigel
TI  - Living Before Dying: Imagining and Remembering Home 
T2  - New Directions in Anthropology
SN  - 9781785336140
U1  - 362.16 23/eng/20230216
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Dementia
KW  - Patients
KW  - Care
KW  - Hospitals, Convalescent
KW  - Medical personnel and patient
KW  - Nursing homes
KW  - Anthropological aspects
KW  - Sociological aspects
KW  - Old age homes
KW  - Quality of life
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Medical Anthropology, Nursing Homes, Care Homes, Dementia, Ageing, Old Age, Communal Living
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785336157?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781785336157
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781785336157/original
ER  -