Gray Areas: Ethnographic Encounters with Nursing Home Culture

by Paula C. Carder, Graham D. Row, Dallas M. High, et al.

Book Overview

This volume features ten scholars from anthropology, nursing, sociology, gerontology, human geography, and other disciplines who provide ethnographic case studies exploring critical care decision-making, models of care for people with Alzheimer's disease, the way residents cope with the limitations, indignities, and opportunities of nursing home life, the roles of family members and nursing home employees, and the formulation of assisted living. The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1930618301
• ISBN13: 9781930618305
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"