At Home in a Nursing Home

An Ethnography of Movement and Care in Australia

Angela Rong Yang Zhang (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

218 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-664-1 (ISBN)

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Focusing on contemporary ideas about how aged care is provided, this book poses the question: How can people who are aged and frail live out the final phase of their lives with dignity? In seeking answers, the author examines what it means to be ‘at home’ in residential care in a novel and compassionate way. In an ethnographic study of how elderly residents can be given the right care, this book provides a new route into the bodily realities of ageing. It is a vital contribution to the search for alternative approaches to aged care provision.

Angela Rong Yang Zhang received the Australian Government Postgraduate Award and Emerging Researchers in Ageing Conference Bursary in 2015 and is currently Aged Care Research & Industry Innovation Australia (ARIIA) Grant supported researcher at College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University, Australia. Dr Zhang is also an Adjunct Fellow to the School of Social Sciences at The University of Adelaide

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Tim Ingold

Acknowledgements

Prologue: Aged Care in Australia: Current Crisis and Context

Introduction: Becoming at Home through Right Care

Part I: Walking

Chapter 1. Watching Each Step

Chapter 2. Beyond Wandering

Chapter 3. Walking out of the Freeze

Chapter 4. Living in the Tension Between Walking and Not Walking

Part II: Care

Chapter 5. Care as Multiplicities

Chapter 6. Caring at the Threshold of Life and Death

Conclusion: Becoming Ethical through Care

Epilogue

Afterword

Philip B. Stafford

Glossary

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	23.09.2022
Reihe/Serie	Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80073-664-9 / 1800736649
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-664-1 / 9781800736641
Zustand	Neuware