TY - JOUR
T1 - Chronically ill, old, and institutionalized
T2 - Being a nursing home resident
AU - Golander, Hava
PY - 1995/1
Y1 - 1995/1
N2 - An ethnography of an Israeli nursing ward is used to conceptualize four basic dilemmas that constitute the life world of residents: (1) new modes of somatic attention developed in the face of bodily decrepitude, (2) maintenance of social relations from a dependent position, (3) reconstruction of self-images in the context of identity fragmentation, and (4) redefining of subjective temporality within a cyclical ward routine. This article discusses how the combined workings of chronic illness, aging, and institutionalization are expressed in and molded through the practical solutions found to these dilemmas.
AB - An ethnography of an Israeli nursing ward is used to conceptualize four basic dilemmas that constitute the life world of residents: (1) new modes of somatic attention developed in the face of bodily decrepitude, (2) maintenance of social relations from a dependent position, (3) reconstruction of self-images in the context of identity fragmentation, and (4) redefining of subjective temporality within a cyclical ward routine. This article discusses how the combined workings of chronic illness, aging, and institutionalization are expressed in and molded through the practical solutions found to these dilemmas.
KW - Chronic illness
KW - Elderly
KW - Ethnography
KW - Long-term care
KW - Nursing home
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=5844248537&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1097/00003727-199501000-00008
DO - 10.1097/00003727-199501000-00008
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AN - SCOPUS:5844248537
SN - 0160-6379
VL - 17
SP - 63
EP - 79
JO - Family and Community Health
JF - Family and Community Health
IS - 4
ER -
