eprintid: 10025224
rev_number: 45
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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
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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   
 
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