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Rodriquez, Jason – Social Psychology Quarterly, 2009
Using evidence gathered during 18 months of participant-observation in 2 nursing homes and 65 interviews with staff, this article examines how nursing-home staff use agency as a rhetorical resource to construct a dignified workplace. Staff attribute agency to dying residents, saying they choose the timing and conditions of their death. Staff…
Descriptors: Nursing Homes, Human Dignity, Personal Autonomy, Dementia
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Morgan, Debra G.; Semchuk, Karen M.; Stewart, Norma J.; D'Arcy, Carl – Canadian Journal on Aging, 2003
The physical and social environments are recognized as important therapeutic tools in the care of nursing home residents with dementia, yet little is known about the environments of rural nursing homes. This study was conducted in one rural health authority (16,000 km[superscript 2]) in the province of Saskatchewan. Long-term institutional care…
Descriptors: Nurses, Dementia, Focus Groups, Caregivers