Care Home Stories

Non-Fiction: Chapters/Essays/Monographs
Written By Amanda Barusch

  • Title – Care Home Stories

  • Subtitle – Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Residential Care (Aging Studies)

  • Editors – Sally Chivers, Ulla Kriebernegg

  • Amanda Barusch’s Contribution – A chapter entitled “A Place for Dad: One Family’s Experience of For-Profit Care”

  • Type – Book

  • Publication Date – September 27, 2017

  • Publisher – Transcript Publishing

  • Medium – Paperback

  • Available at – Amazon

  • Link – https://a.co/d/80FRQpU

  • Synopsis – Institutional care for seniors offers a cultural repository for fears and hopes about an aging population. Although enormous changes have occurred in how institutional care is structured, the legacies of the poorhouse still persist, creating panicked views of the nursing home as a dreaded fate. The paradoxical nature of a space meant to be both hospital and home offers up critical tensions for examination by age studies scholars. The essays in this book challenge stereotypes of institutional care for older adults, illustrate the changes that have occurred over time, and illuminate the continuities in the stories we tell about nursing homes.

Care Home Stories book cover.
Amanda Barusch

Amanda Barusch has worked as a janitor, exotic dancer, editor, and college professor. She lives in the American West, where she spends as much time as possible on dirt paths. She has an abiding disdain for boundaries and adores ambiguity. Amanda has published eight books of non-fiction, a few poems, and a growing number of short stories. Aging Angry is her first work of creative non-fiction. She uses magical realism to explore deep truths of the human experience in this rapidly changing world.

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