Carers Care Homes And The British Media

Author : Hannah Grist,Ros Jennings
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030357689

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Carers, Care Homes and the British Media by Hannah Grist,Ros Jennings Pdf

This book focuses on the relationship between the media and those who work as paid care assistants in care homes in Britain. It explores this relationship in terms of the contemporary cultural and personal understandings of care work and care homes that have developed as the role has emerged as increasingly socially and economically significant in society. Three strands of analysis are integrated: an examination of the representations of paid care workers in the British media; the experiences of current and former care workers; and the autoethnographic reflections of the authors who have experiences of working as care assistants. The book offers a rich contextual and experiential account of the responsibilities, challenges, and emotions of care work in British society. Grist and Jennings make a case for the need to better value and more accurately represent care work in contemporary media accounts.

Author : Susanne Katharina Christ
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110789874

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Fictions of Dementia by Susanne Katharina Christ Pdf

Taking its cues from both classical and post-classical narratologies, this study explores both forms and functions of the representation of dementia in Anglophone fictions. Initially, dementia is conceptualised as a narrative-epistemological paradox: The more those affected know what it is like to have dementia, the less they can tell about it. Narrative fiction is the only discourse that provides an imaginative glimpse at the subjective experience of dementia in language. The narratological modelling of four ‘narrative modes’ elaborates how the paradox becomes productive in fiction: Depending on the narrative perspective taken, but also on the type of narration, the technique for representing consciousness and the epistemic strategy of narrating dementia, the respective narrative modes come with different prerequisites and possibilities for narrating dementia. The analysis of four contemporary Anglophone dementia fictions based on the developed model reveals their potential functions: Fiction allows readers to learn about the challenges of dementia, grants them perspective-taking, it trains cognitive flexibility, and explores the meaning of memory, knowledge, narrative and imagination, and thus also offers trajectories of a cultural coping with dementia.

Author : Margaret O’Neill,Michaela Schrage-Früh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000244618

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Women and Ageing by Margaret O’Neill,Michaela Schrage-Früh Pdf

This edited collection considers the ways older women’s life narratives redefine culturally imposed conceptions of what it means to grow older. Drawing on research from age studies as well as social and cultural gerontology, the contributors explore the subjective accounts and diverse voices of older women. In doing so, they examine the tensions between older women’s social identities versus their individual narratives. In their chapters, the contributors acknowledge, explore and contextualise women’s experiences of growing older, thus counterbalancing the often one-sided, negative representations of ageing perpetuated by dominant cultural discourse. They focus on diverse forms of life writing including memoirs and (auto)biography, digital and visual forms of life narrative as well as autoethnographic accounts. As the chapters in this collection demonstrate, life writing by and about older women often necessitates opening out literary forms and modes of critique, searching for narrative and performative strategies, and creating spaces in which to inscribe subjective experiences. Relationships, intergenerational connections, and visual and material cues are often integral to these analyses, which assert the richness of older women’s life narratives. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Life Writing.

Author : Abigail Gardner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501376825

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Listening, Belonging, and Memory by Abigail Gardner Pdf

Listening, Belonging, and Memory puts connected listening at the center of current debates around whose voices might be listened to, who by, and why. Arguing that listening has to be understood in relation to the self, nation, age, witnessing, and memory, it uses examples from digital storytelling, listening projects, and critical media analysis to highlight connections between listening and power. It centers on voices, stories, and silence, how they interweave, and are activated, maneuvered, reconfigured, and denied. It focuses on the small, microengagements that crouch within the superstructures of violent border control and the censorious policing of sonic citizenry, identifying cracks in the reshuffling of histories and hierarchies that connected listening affords.

Author : Sara Cohen,Line Grenier,Ros Jennings
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501369513

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Troubling Inheritances by Sara Cohen,Line Grenier,Ros Jennings Pdf

This book provides an interdisciplinary focus on music, memory, and ageing by examining how they intersect outside of a formal therapeutic context or framework and by offering a counter-narrative to age as decline. It contributes to the development of qualitative research methodologies by utilizing and reflecting on methods for studying music, memory, and ageing across diverse and interconnected contexts. Using the notion of inheritance to trouble its core themes of music, memory, ageing, and methodology, it examines different ways in which the concept of inheritance is understood but also how it commonly refers to the practice of passing on, and the connections this establishes across time and space. It confronts the ageist discourses that associate popular music predominantly with youth and that focus narrowly, and almost exclusively, on music's therapeutic function for older adults. By presenting research which examines various intersections of music and ageing outside of a therapeutic context or framework, the book brings a much-needed intervention.

Author : Line Grenier,Fannie Valois-Nadeau
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839436837

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A Senior Moment by Line Grenier,Fannie Valois-Nadeau Pdf

Ageing and Memory are two cultural processes that establish their own relationships with time. They affect our ways of living, in the present, and for a future, as we move through life. This book focuses on the cultural mediations of ageing and memory, teasing out their complex and largely unpredictable relationships and interconnections. Its overall purpose is to explore different practices, commodities, daily routines, sounds, images and technologies that configure memory and ageing and shape our experiences of living in time and with time. By covering a variety of phenomena, from biopics, music by elderly, and artefacts among other, this edited collection considers the cultural stuff that ageing and memory are made of and interconnected in singular ways, for and by particular people, in specific socio-historical locations.

Author : Bill Lawrence
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781788036962

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When the Unacceptable Becomes the Norm by Bill Lawrence Pdf

When the Unacceptable Becomes the Norm is an essential guide for any person looking to place a relative in care or already in the care system. Few subjects have aroused public concern since the millennium more than care for the elderly in the UK, and in particular residential care homes for the elderly. With a rapidly aging population this is a major issue for both national and local government, as well as a personal problem for innumerable people finding themselves in this situation. The media have widely reported the shortcomings of care homes for the elderly and in particular the many cases of abuse, neglect and malpractice. By definition, such people are often frail, in poor health and are always very vulnerable. The book seeks to provide advice for the increasing number of people looking for a suitable home for their elderly loved ones, based on both long personal experience and detailed research.The advice on how to choose a care home, and then how to keep an elderly loved one safe and well there, is practical and down to earth. The author also tells the story of his own battle to protect his mother and his experience dealing with the many outside agencies concerned with care for the elderly, including their many shortcomings and what lessons he learnt along the way.

Author : Sean Creaven
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000891652

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The Pandemic in Britain by Sean Creaven Pdf

This book offers a political analysis and sociological critique of the UK government’s response to the novel coronavirus outbreak, interpreting the inadequacies of government policy with regard to COVID-19 as the results of neoliberal ideology, the protection of corporate interests, Brexit nationalism, and the peculiarities of a British model of capitalism based on international trade and labour market precarity. Arguing that institutionalized corporate-capitalist control of state and science generates new and growing public health risks, and that consumer-driven individualism has eroded community life and the protections this might offer against pandemics, the author contends that the UK government’s catastrophic response to the COVID-19 pandemic was the result of peculiarly British socioeconomic and political phenomena. The Pandemic in Britain will appeal to scholars of sociology, philosophy and politics with interests in the COVID-19 pandemic as well as neoliberal ideology and its manifestation in political life.

Author : Anthony Douglas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781134385188

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Partnership Working by Anthony Douglas Pdf

Joint working is recognised as the most effective way of improving social care and the government's aim to provide a seamless service of care. Written by an experienced director of social services, this text provides a detailed introduction to joint working.

Author : Alie Smith
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781664199118

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Mr. Pedophile by Alie Smith Pdf

MR PEDOPHILE the Englishman is a non-fictional book containing analyses with no intent to offend anyone in so far exposing the sexual and physical abuses of a female Arabian child by her stepfather, and the manufactured mental issues labelled with the index child by way of fabricated child care proceedings in the United Kingdom of England and Wales. It made references to individuals who were also sexually or physically abused upon being wrongfully diagnosed with mental health disorders due to defective assessments and undue interventions strategies by mental health professionals. And it dealt with those sexual and physical abuses of the index child and other individuals in the psychiatric industry which is embedded with vehement human rights abusers in the United States of America and the United Kingdom of England and Wales. So, enjoy reading this book which is dedicated to the whole world.

Author : Nolan, Mike,Lundh, Ulla,Keady, John
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780335212613

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Partnerships In Family Care by Nolan, Mike,Lundh, Ulla,Keady, John Pdf

This book considers how family and professional carers can work together more effectively in order to provide the highest quality of care to people who need support in order to remain in their own homes. It adopts a temporal perspective looking at key transitions in caregiving and suggests the most appropriate types of help at particular points in time.

Author : Gillian Dalley
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030979980

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Caring in Crisis by Gillian Dalley Pdf

This book examines a familiar and contemporary social policy issue—the crisis besetting social care—but differs from usual accounts by including additional perspectives (philosophical, ethical and political) not often raised but nonetheless crucial to understanding the issue. Its central argument is that while a health/care divide dates back to legislative separation at the inception of the welfare state in the 1940s, the major cause of the current crisis has been the slow but insidious ideological and practical splitting off and fracturing of social care from other state welfare institutions, notably the NHS, and its consequent entrapment in the treacherous straits of ‘profit and loss’, self-interest and individualism. These issues and others, the book argues, contribute to the building of a strong case for bringing social care into the public sector. Towards the end, the book goes on to consider the impact, from 2020, of the Covid 19 pandemic on a caring crisis that was already well-established. The consequences of this global shock are still working through and are likely to be profound. Solutions, as the book describes, which were already being formulated prior to the arrival of the pandemic, are even more salient now. The book will therefore be of interest to students and researchers of social policy and public policy, health and social care professionals and policymakers – and users of social care themselves.

Author : Mayumi Hayashi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317319450

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The Care of Older People by Mayumi Hayashi Pdf

Across the globe, populations are getting older. Hayashi surveys the development of residential care in Britain and Japan from the 1920s onwards, using regional case studies, and taking into account the influence of traditions and cultural norms.

Author : Stuart Price,Ben Harbisher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000532616

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Power, Media and the Covid-19 Pandemic by Stuart Price,Ben Harbisher Pdf

This edited collection provides an in-depth, interdisciplinary critique of the acts of public communication disseminated during a major global crisis. Encompassing contributions from academics working in the fields of politics, environmentalism, citizens’ rights, state theory, cultural studies, journalism, and discourse/rhetoric, the book offers an original insight into the relationship between the various social forces that contributed to the ‘Covid narrative’. The subjects analysed here include: the performance of the ‘mainstream’ media, the quality of political ‘messaging’ and argumentation, the securitised state and racism in Brazil, the growth of ‘catastrophic management’ in UK universities, emergent journalistic practices in South Africa, homelessness and punitive dispossession, the pandemic and the history of eugenics, and the Chinese media’s attempt to disguise discriminatory practices. This is one of the first comparative studies of the various rationales offered for state/corporate intervention in public life. Delving beneath established political tropes and state rhetoric, it identifies the power relations exposed by an event that was described as unprecedented and unique, but was in fact comparable to other major global disruptions. As governments insisted on distinguishing their own propaganda from unregulated disinformation, their increasingly sceptical ‘publics’ pursued their own idiosyncratic solutions to the crisis, while the apparent sacrifice of a host of citizens – from the most dedicated to the most vulnerable – suggested that inequality and exploitation remained at the heart of the social order. Power, Media, and the Covid-19 Pandemic is essential reading for students, researchers and academics in media, communication and journalism studies, politics, environmental sciences, critical discourse analysis, cultural studies, and the sociology of health.

Author : Royal College of Physicians of London
Publisher : Royal College of Physicians
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Frail older people
ISBN : 9781860161377

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The Health and Care of Older People in Care Homes by Royal College of Physicians of London Pdf