The Resource Living before dying : imagining and remembering home, Janette Davies
Living before dying : imagining and remembering home, Janette Davies
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The item Living before dying : imagining and remembering home, Janette Davies represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xi, 158 pages)
- Contents
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- Living before Dying; Contents; Foreword ; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1. The Social and Behavioural Implications of People with Dementia; Chapter 2. Caring in Action; Chapter 3. Social Organisation within the Nursing Home; Chapter 4. Managing Activities for the Residents; Chapter 5. Ordering Disorder; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
- Isbn
- 9781785336157
- Label
- Living before dying : imagining and remembering home
- Title
- Living before dying
- Title remainder
- imagining and remembering home
- Statement of responsibility
- Janette Davies
- Subject
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- Dementia -- therapy
- Electronic books
- Homes for the Aged
- Nursing Homes
- Nursing homes -- Anthropological aspects
- Nursing homes -- Anthropological aspects
- Nursing homes -- Sociological aspects
- Nursing homes -- Sociological aspects
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Social Security
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Social Services & Welfare
- Professional-Patient Relations
- Quality of Life
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology | Cultural
- Dementia -- Patients | Care
- Dementia -- Patients | Care
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Davies, Janette
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- New directions in anthropology
- Series volume
- volume 41
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Nursing homes
- Nursing homes
- Dementia
- Dementia
- Nursing Homes
- Homes for the Aged
- Professional-Patient Relations
- Quality of Life
- POLITICAL SCIENCE
- POLITICAL SCIENCE
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Dementia
- Nursing homes
- Nursing homes
- Label
- Living before dying : imagining and remembering home, Janette Davies
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Living before Dying; Contents; Foreword ; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1. The Social and Behavioural Implications of People with Dementia; Chapter 2. Caring in Action; Chapter 3. Social Organisation within the Nursing Home; Chapter 4. Managing Activities for the Residents; Chapter 5. Ordering Disorder; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
- Control code
- ocn992437753
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xi, 158 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781785336157
- Lccn
- 2017030588
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
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- 978178533615701
- 22573/ctvvx1sf3
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)992437753
- Label
- Living before dying : imagining and remembering home, Janette Davies
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Living before Dying; Contents; Foreword ; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1. The Social and Behavioural Implications of People with Dementia; Chapter 2. Caring in Action; Chapter 3. Social Organisation within the Nursing Home; Chapter 4. Managing Activities for the Residents; Chapter 5. Ordering Disorder; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
- Control code
- ocn992437753
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xi, 158 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781785336157
- Lccn
- 2017030588
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
-
- 978178533615701
- 22573/ctvvx1sf3
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)992437753
Subject
- Dementia -- therapy
- Electronic books
- Homes for the Aged
- Nursing Homes
- Nursing homes -- Anthropological aspects
- Nursing homes -- Anthropological aspects
- Nursing homes -- Sociological aspects
- Nursing homes -- Sociological aspects
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Social Security
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Social Services & Welfare
- Professional-Patient Relations
- Quality of Life
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology | Cultural
- Dementia -- Patients | Care
- Dementia -- Patients | Care
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