eprintid: 10025224 rev_number: 45 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/02/52/24 datestamp: 2021-05-10 14:35:29 lastmod: 2021-05-11 14:18:49 status_changed: 2021-05-11 14:18:49 type: book_section metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Gilleard, C creators_name: Higgs, P title: An Enveloping Shadow? The Role of the Nursing Home in the Social Imaginary of the Fourth Age ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: A01 divisions: B02 divisions: C07 divisions: D79 keywords: Fourth Age, Nursing Homes note: This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: In this chapter we consider the nursing home as both a site and a symbol that fashions the social imaginary of a fourth age. Before exploring the nursing home’s dual role, we will first outline the concept of a social imaginary, as well as how the fourth age can be thought of as such a social imaginary. Bearing in mind this conceptual framework, we go on to address some of the ways in which the nursing home plays out its critical role in conferring meanings onto the fourth age, through its organizational culture, its practices of care, and its own representation in the media. The chapter concludes by considering the extent to which the fourth age needs to be acknowledged as a powerful and coherent social representation of much that is feared about later life and how such representations can be challenged within the nursing home, as well as the cautions that need to be exercised when mounting such challenges. This latter point is important in highlighting the tensions that exist in determining what constitutes “good” care under conditions of compromised agency. date: 2017-10-01 date_type: published publisher: Transcript official_url: https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839438053-020 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1451428 doi: 10.14361/9783839438053-020 isbn_13: 978-3837638059 lyricists_name: Gilleard, Christopher lyricists_name: Higgs, Paul lyricists_id: CGILL49 lyricists_id: PHIGG88 actors_name: Dewerpe, Marie actors_id: MDDEW97 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public number: An envel place_of_pub: Bielefeld, Germany pagerange: 229-246 pages: 17 isbn: 3837638057 book_title: Care Home Stories: Aging, disability and long term residential care editors_name: Chivers, S editors_name: Kriebernegg, U citation: Gilleard, C; Higgs, P; (2017) An Enveloping Shadow? The Role of the Nursing Home in the Social Imaginary of the Fourth Age. In: Chivers, S and Kriebernegg, U, (eds.) Care Home Stories: Aging, disability and long term residential care. (pp. 229-246). Transcript: Bielefeld, Germany. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10025224/9/Higgs_10.14361_9783839438053-020.pdf