Description
| Product ID: | 9781785336140 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | New Directions in Anthropology |
| Title: | Living Before Dying |
| Subtitle: | Imagining and Remembering Home |
| Authors: | Author: Janette Davies |
| Page Count: | 172 |
| Subjects: | Age groups: the elderly, Age groups: the elderly, Social and cultural anthropology, Care of the elderly, Geriatric nursing, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Care of the elderly, Geriatric nursing |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This in-depth description of life in a nursing/care home, told in a year of daily conversations with patients and staff, highlights the daily care of frail or ill residents of extreme old age, emphasising interaction with care assistants and the different behaviours of men and women. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Berghahn Books |
| Publisher Name: | Berghahn Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-08-01 |
