LEARNING OBJECTIVES • What are the major types of nursing homes? • Who is most likely to live in nursing homes? • What are the key characteristics of nursing homes? • What are special care units? • How can a nursing home be a home? • How should people communicate with nursing home residents? • […]
День: 16.09.2015
Assisted Living
Given that maintaining a sense of place, a home, is very important to older adults, it should not come as a surprise that they would prefer living options that help foster that desire. That is how the option of assisted living came into being (Scheidt & Schwarz, in press). Assisted living facilities are housing options […]
Main Structures:. Labour, Power, Gathexis
The argument so far has traced the domain of the social theory of gender and its gradual emergence in Western social thought. I have argued that this theory is autonomous: it cannot derive its logic from a source outside itself, whether natural difference, biological reproduction, the functional needs of society or the imperatives of social […]
Capitalism and Motherhood: Does It Pay to Have Children?
B efore looking into the influence of capitalism on motherhood, let us begin with an age-old question: Can capitalism survive? Karl Marx, as we all know, thought not. He claimed that ever-increasing competition and the drive for profit would intensify the exploitation of labor, sharpening class conflict and triggering the inevitable downfall of capitalism.1 Responding […]
Capitalism and Motherhood: Does It Pay to Have Children?
B efore looking into the influence of capitalism on motherhood, let us begin with an age-old question: Can capitalism survive? Karl Marx, as we all know, thought not. He claimed that ever-increasing competition and the drive for profit would intensify the exploitation of labor, sharpening class conflict and triggering the inevitable downfall of capitalism.1 Responding […]
MISINTERPRETED RELATIONS AND. INAPPROPRIATE FEELING
A bride and a mourner live out roles that are specific to an occasion. Yet the achievements of the heart are all the more remarkable within roles that last longer and go deeper. Parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and best friends expect to have more freedom from feeling rules and less need for […]
Conclusion: Embarking on New Motherhood
The women I studied doggedly pursued secure employment while seeking out a partner, all the while holding their hopes for motherhood close. But when the search for a partner seemed as though it would block the possibility of motherhood, these women stopped following the rules. Both gay and straight women had to push aside the […]
Congregate Housing
Congregate housing includes a range of living options. The most common form is an apartment complex of older adults that provides a level of support, such as shared meals. Congregate housing is often the least expensive form of supported living for older adults, as the cost is typically subsidized by various government agencies and nonprofit […]
Adult Day Care
In some cases, older adults need more support than is possible with just home modification, but still do not need it on a full-time basis. For them, one possible option may be adult day care. Adult day care is designed to provide support, companionship, and certain services during the day. This situation arises most often […]
Home Modification
The discussion of the competence-environmental press model earlier provided two options for people who experience difficulties dealing with the tasks of daily life. On the one hand, people can increase their competency in order to develop better or new skills for handling the tasks. For example, to remember better where you put your car keys, […]