Speaking of Life: Horizons of Meaning for Nursing Home Residents

by Jaber F. Gubrium

Book Overview

In one of his earlier books, Living and Dying at Murray Manor, the author availed himself of ethnographic techniques to explore the experience of life in a nursing home. This volume extends that exploration to an assessment of the quality of long-term care provided to residents of nursing homes, and of the resulting quality of lives.Taking a bottom-up rather than a top-down view, Gubrium presents these qualities in the voices of "the residents themselves,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0202304825
• ISBN13: 9780202304823
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"