TY - BOOK ID - 77903870 TI - Managing change in old age PY - 1992 SN - 0585057400 9780585057408 9780791410639 0791410633 9780791410646 0791410641 0791410633 0791410641 9781438406268 1438406266 DB - UniCat KW - OLDER PEOPLE KW - OLD AGE HOMES KW - FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS KW - MEDICAL KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Older People KW - Old Age Homes KW - Family & Relationships KW - Medical KW - Social Science KW - Older people KW - Old age homes KW - Family & relationships KW - Social science UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77903870 AB - This book is an ethnographic study of an old age home in Israel that sheds light on the existential experience of elderly retirees. Hazan looks carefully at the universal concerns of old age, specifically examining the nature of everyday life in the institutional setting. He shows the workings of the micropolitics of control in an old age home and the tension between controlling dwindling resources and sustaining life-long meaning for residents. He also effectively brings out distinctive features of the Israeli situation, its cultural and bureaucratic codes. Hazan's study of the life cycle, based in the anthropology of process, is a senstive portrayal of the dynamics of institutionalized elderly in a complex society. ER -