Uneasy Endings: Daily Life in an American Nursing Home
"If we continue, we grow old, and this is how it could be for us," writes Renée Rose Shield in her candid and sympathetic account of life in one American nursing home. Drawing on anthropological methods and theory to illuminate institutional life, she probes the sources of the profound sen...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "If we continue, we grow old, and this is how it could be for us," writes Renée Rose Shield in her candid and sympathetic account of life in one American nursing home. Drawing on anthropological methods and theory to illuminate institutional life, she probes the sources of the profound sense of unease she found at the place she calls "The Franklin Nursing Home."For fourteen months Shield participated in life at a nursing home in the northeastern United States. She got to know many of the people associated with the home—doctors, nurses, custodians, kitchen workers, administrators, social workers, visiting relatives, and above all, the residents, who emerge in this book as the individuals they are. Sections in which the residents speak poignantly in their own voices are woven throughout her richly detailed observations of everyday routines and events. We see them using guile and humor to get by, struggling to approach the end of their lives with a measure of autonomy and dignity, and we meet an often conscientious and caring staff constrained by conflicting professional perspectives and by the bureaucratic structure in which they work.There are no villains here. Rather, Shield explains how conditions in the nursing home create a difficult and uncomfortable "liminality"—the transition from an accustomed role to a new one-for the residents. In characterizing nursing-home existence, she goes beyond Erving Goffman's classic definition of the "total institution" to show how residents pass from adulthood to death without the comfort of ritual or community support common in rites of passage. In addition to the isolation created by this solitary passage, she finds restrictions on "reciprocity"—the old people are always recipients whose need and obligation to repay are seen as unnecessary and difficult to satisfy. The system encourages their passivity, which deepens their dependency and helps to explain why they are often perceived as children. Offering concrete suggestions for improving the quality of nursing-home life, Uneasy Endings will find a broad audience among those who work with the aged |
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| spelling | Shield, Renée Rose Verfasser aut Uneasy Endings Daily Life in an American Nursing Home Renée Rose Shield Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press [2018] © 1988 1 online resource txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mrz 2019) "If we continue, we grow old, and this is how it could be for us," writes Renée Rose Shield in her candid and sympathetic account of life in one American nursing home. Drawing on anthropological methods and theory to illuminate institutional life, she probes the sources of the profound sense of unease she found at the place she calls "The Franklin Nursing Home."For fourteen months Shield participated in life at a nursing home in the northeastern United States. She got to know many of the people associated with the home—doctors, nurses, custodians, kitchen workers, administrators, social workers, visiting relatives, and above all, the residents, who emerge in this book as the individuals they are. Sections in which the residents speak poignantly in their own voices are woven throughout her richly detailed observations of everyday routines and events. We see them using guile and humor to get by, struggling to approach the end of their lives with a measure of autonomy and dignity, and we meet an often conscientious and caring staff constrained by conflicting professional perspectives and by the bureaucratic structure in which they work.There are no villains here. Rather, Shield explains how conditions in the nursing home create a difficult and uncomfortable "liminality"—the transition from an accustomed role to a new one-for the residents. In characterizing nursing-home existence, she goes beyond Erving Goffman's classic definition of the "total institution" to show how residents pass from adulthood to death without the comfort of ritual or community support common in rites of passage. In addition to the isolation created by this solitary passage, she finds restrictions on "reciprocity"—the old people are always recipients whose need and obligation to repay are seen as unnecessary and difficult to satisfy. The system encourages their passivity, which deepens their dependency and helps to explain why they are often perceived as children. Offering concrete suggestions for improving the quality of nursing-home life, Uneasy Endings will find a broad audience among those who work with the aged In English SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social bisacsh Nursing home patients United States Nursing homes United States Altenheim (DE-588)4068590-1 gnd rswk-swf Pflegeheim (DE-588)4139269-3 gnd rswk-swf USA (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd rswk-swf 1\p (DE-588)4133254-4 Erlebnisbericht gnd-content 2\p (DE-588)4522595-3 Fallstudiensammlung gnd-content Altenheim (DE-588)4068590-1 s USA (DE-588)4078704-7 g 3\p DE-604 Pflegeheim (DE-588)4139269-3 s 4\p DE-604 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501718182 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 2\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 3\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 4\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
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| title_auth | Uneasy Endings Daily Life in an American Nursing Home |
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| title_full | Uneasy Endings Daily Life in an American Nursing Home Renée Rose Shield |
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| title_sub | Daily Life in an American Nursing Home |
| topic | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social bisacsh Nursing home patients United States Nursing homes United States Altenheim (DE-588)4068590-1 gnd Pflegeheim (DE-588)4139269-3 gnd |
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