Old Age in Transition: The Geriatric Ward

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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.

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.,."an excellent ethnography of The Geriatric Ward in Quebec....Woolfson uses his research to develop recommendations to improve staff relationships, patient care and case management, patient, family, and staff relationships, and the environment....This is a well-written, succinct book that is a good read for anyone interested in aging research. In addition, this would make an excellent supplementary text to numerous undergraduate and graduate classes."-American Anthropologist
...an excellent ethnography of The Geriatric Ward in Quebec....Woolfson uses his research to develop recommendations to improve staff relationships, patient care and case management, patient, family, and staff relationships, and the environment....This is a well-written, succinct book that is a good read for anyone interested in aging research. In addition, this would make an excellent supplementary text to numerous undergraduate and graduate classes.-American Anthropologist
..."an excellent ethnography of The Geriatric Ward in Quebec....Woolfson uses his research to develop recommendations to improve staff relationships, patient care and case management, patient, family, and staff relationships, and the environment....This is a well-written, succinct book that is a good read for anyone interested in aging research. In addition, this would make an excellent supplementary text to numerous undergraduate and graduate classes."-American Anthropologist

Author Bio

PETER WOOLFSON is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Vermont. He is currently chair of the Anthropology Department and chair of the Education Committee for the Center for the Study of Aging and task force member of the Education Committee at the Centre for Aging at McGill University in Montreal.