The Ends of Time: Life and Work in a Nursing Home

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276 pp. "This lively account of life in a decent American nursing home is based on six years of anthropological research in geriatric facilities in upstate New York. Savishinsky an alyzes the lives and experiences of residents, staff members and volunteers, addressing the contradictory attitudes American society has shown towards geriatric facilities and the aging process itself: the tensions between caring and curing, morality and mortality, privacy and supervision, home and institution, and selfishness and altruism. Challenging stereotypic views of aging and institutional life, he concludes with several recommendations for improving the quality of life and work in geriatric institutions." Show more