Beschreibung:
This timely book explores what it is like to live in an aged care home: the expectations that new residents and their families enter with, their relationships with fellow residents and formal caregivers, and how they approach, in different ways, the reality that this place is where they will die.
1. Why we must talk about residential aged care. 2. Arts-based research. Part 1: Entering aged care. 3. Leaving home - and entering aged care. Part 2: Daily life in aged care. 4. 1022 days: why design matters. 5. Everyday life, health, and leisure. 6. Relationships with staff and family. 7. Secrets and sexuality: the value of trauma-informed care. Part 3: Dying in aged care. 8. Death and dying in aged care. 9. The transformative potential of technology. 10. Thinking differently about aged care.