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Living before dying : imagining and remembering home / Janette Davies
- 作者: Davies, Janette
- 出版: New York : Berghahn Books 2017
- 叢書名: New directions in anthropology ;v. 41
- 主題: Dementia--therapy. , Homes for the Aged. , Nursing Homes. , Professional-Patient Relations , Quality of life.
- ISBN: 9781785336140 (hbk.) (pbk.) :: US$120.00 、 1785336142 (hbk.) (pbk.)
- 一般註:Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-153) and index
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- 系統號: 005249198 | 機讀編目格式
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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
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