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Aged or Caged? Concepts of Space in Nursing Home Narratives - A Cultural Gerontological Analysis. Dr. Ulla Kriebernegg, Center for Inter-American Studies, University of Graz The nursing home is "a micro-complex of architectural,

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Aged or Caged? Concepts of Space in Nursing Home Narratives - A Cultural Gerontological Analysis.

Dr. Ulla Kriebernegg, Center for Inter-American Studies, University of Graz

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The nursing home is "a micro-complex

architectural, administrative, financial, clinical, familial, symbolic, and emotional interactions and power relations” (204).

Stephen Katz. Disciplining Old Age: The Formation of Gerontological

Knowledge. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996.

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The Nursing Home Specter: Aged and Caged in a Total Institution?

Her new home, sweet home. …This will be fine. Fine

enough. It only takes getting

used to, and a little while to get settled. It'll be a shock for a while, being incarcerated in this genteel,

pen-doored
prison. (16)

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Betty Friedan The Fountain of Age (1993) Nursing Home Specter “death sentences, the final interment from which there is no exit but death“ (510).

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“total institution“

"place of residence and work where a large number of like-situated individuals, cut off from the wider society for an appreciable period of time, together lead an enclosed, formally administered round of life" (Goffman, Asylums, xiii).

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Aged or Caged? Concepts of Space in Nursing Home Narratives - A - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Aged or Caged? Concepts of Space in Nursing Home Narratives - A Cultural Gerontological Analysis.

The nursing home is "a micro-complex

architectural, administrative, financial, clinical, familial, symbolic, and emotional interactions and power relations” (204).

The Nursing Home Specter: Aged and Caged in a Total Institution?

Her new home, sweet home. …This will be fine. Fine

used to, and a little while to get settled. It'll be a shock for a while, being incarcerated in this genteel,

Betty Friedan The Fountain of Age (1993) Nursing Home Specter “death sentences, the final interment from which there is no exit but death“ (510).

“total institution“

"place of residence and work where a large number of like-situated individuals, cut off from the wider society for an appreciable period of time, together lead an enclosed, formally administered round of life" (Goffman, Asylums, xiii).

Thank you!

ulla.kriebernegg@uni-graz.at http://www.uni-graz.at/cias