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Wash, wear, and care : clothing and laundry in long-term residential care /

Title
Wash, wear, and care : clothing and laundry in long-term residential care / Pat Armstrong and Suzanne Day.
Author
Armstrong, Pat, 1945-
Publication
  • Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2017]
  • ©2017

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Day, Suzanne,
Description
ix, 206 pages; 23 cm
Summary
How clothing and laundry provide a window on to the structuring of care and work in nursing homes.
Subject
  • Autonomy (Psychology) in old age
  • Laundry > Social aspects
  • Nursing home patients > Psychological aspects
  • Nursing home patients > Social aspects
  • Older people > Health and hygiene
  • Older people > Long-term care
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-200) and index.
Contents
Introduction: setting the stage -- Who pays and who profits -- The labour of laundry and clothing -- Risky business -- Clothing, laundry, and taking care -- Contradictions, tensions, and possibilities -- Conclusions.
ISBN
  • 0773549234
  • 9780773549234
  • 0773549226
  • 9780773549227
  • 9780773549241 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9780773549258 (canceled/invalid)
OCLC
  • 964327549
  • ocn964327549
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library