Foreword by Philip B. Stafford Introduction Perspective on Ethnographic Methods, Analysis and Findings Nursing Home Research Comes of Age: Toward an Ethnological Perspective on Long Term Care by Maria D. Vesperi Perspective and Story in Nursing Home Ethnography by Jaber F. Gubrium Qualitative Research as a Tool Revealing Inappropriate Medicalization of Aging in Nursing Home Care by J. Neil Henderson You Say Respondent, I Say Informant: What Stories Told by Informants Can Tell Us by Lisa Groger Ethnography and the Nursing Home Ombudsman by Lynn D. Mason In and Out of Bounds: The Ethics of Respect in Studying Nursing Homes by Joel Savishinsky Ethics in the Nursing Home: Cases, Choices, and Issues by Renee Rose Shields The Head Nurse as Key Informant: How Beliefs and Institutional Pressure Structure Dementia Care by Athena McLean and Margaret Perkinson Staff/Resident Life Assessing Types of Residential Accommodation for the Elderly: Liminality and Communitas by Barbara Hornum Relatives as Trouble: Nursing Home Aides and Patient's Families by Nancy Foner From the Inside Out: The World of the Institutionalized Elderly by Bethel Ann Powers Continuities and Discontinuities in the Life Course: Experience of Demented Persons in a Residential Alzheimer's Facility by Myrna Silverman and Carol McAllister References Index
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