Old Age in Transition: The Geriatric Ward

Author/Contributor(s):	Woolfson, Peter
Publisher:	Praeger
Date:	08/26/1997
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

Most studies of geriatric patients have focused on nursing homes. In fact, most people are placed in these institutions only after being evaluated by medical and social service staff. This ethnography details the day-to-day experiences of a geriatric and assessment unit by examining the staff, families, and patients themselves. It looks at the activities that take place in the unit as well as the less obvious cultural patterns of the process. Using the Ethnography of Speaking method, it explores the human side of this most difficult of life's decisions.