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The linking of age and ill-health is part of a cultural narrative of decline as age is often defined as the absence of good health. Research has shown that we are aged by culture, but we are also culturally made ill when we age. The cultural ambiguity of aging can thus deconstruct negative images of old age as physical decrepitude. This volume investigates the topic of health within the matrix of time and experience by addressing issues such as how our understanding of health influences our notion of agency within a subversive deconstruction of normative age concepts, and what role the notion of health plays in such an interaction.

Older people --- Geriatrics --- Cruelty to the aged --- Elder abuse --- Abused elderly --- Abuse of. --- Health and hygiene. --- Aging Studies; Disability; Health; Identity; Gender; Narratives of Decline; Memory; Madness; Medicine; Sociology of Medicine; Cultural Studies --- Cultural Studies. --- Disability. --- Gender. --- Health. --- Identity. --- Madness. --- Medicine. --- Memory. --- Narratives of Decline. --- Sociology of Medicine.

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Institutional care for seniors offers a cultural repository for fears and hopes about an aging population. Although enormous changes have occurred in how institutional care is structured, the legacies of the poorhouse still persist, creating panicked views of the nursing home as a dreaded fate. The paradoxical nature of a space meant to be both hospital and home offers up critical tensions for examination by age studies scholars. The essays in this book challenge stereotypes of institutional care for older adults, illustrate the changes that have occurred over time, and illuminate the continuities in the stories we tell about nursing homes. »Ein sehr interessantes, weiterführendes und nachdenklich machendes Buch. [Es wird] nicht nur ein akademisches Publikum angesprochen, vor allem die Praxis sollte die Lektüre nicht scheuen.« Hermann Brandenburg, www.socialnet.de, 27.02.2018

Age groups: the elderly --- Aging Studies. --- Care. --- Cultural Studies. --- Identity. --- Institution. --- Life Course Narrative. --- Medicine. --- Old Age. --- Sociology of Medicine. --- Space. --- Long-term Care; Institution; Identity; Life Course Narrative; Space; Old Age; Medicine; Aging Studies; Care; Sociology of Medicine; Cultural Studies

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