Living Before Dying: Imagining and Remembering Home (New Directions in Anthropology Book 41)

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. "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."--Page 4 de la couverture Contents Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 The Social and Behavioural Implications of People with Dementia Chapter 2 Caring in Action: Women in the Workplace Chapter 3 Social Organisation within the Nursing Home Chapter 4 Managing Activities for the Residents Chapter 5 Ordering Disorder Glossary Bibliography Index This in-depth description of life in a nursing/care home, told in a year of daily conversations with patients and staff, highlights the daily care of frail or ill residents of extreme old age, emphasising interaction with care assistants and the different behaviours of men and women.