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Managers and eldercare — three critical, language-based approaches
Author(s)	Rosemary A McGowan, Kim Morouney, Patricia Bradshaw
Journal title	Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 19, no 2, Summer 2000
Pages	pp 237-259
Keywords	Managers ; Employees ; Family care ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Theory ; Canada.
Annotation	Critical, language-based analytic approaches offer tools to help explore how we use language to construct identities, roles and relationships, to represent realities, and to challenge or support existing social orders. The authors identify the epistemologies, mechanics and insights of three language-based approaches: functional grammar, discourse analysis, and deconstruction. Texts analysed are drawn from in-depth interviews with male and female managerial level employees in Southern Ontario, Canada, who provide care for ageing relatives. Analyses target managers' reactions to the "eldercare" label, and how managers balance work commitments with caregiving commitments. The role of managers in eldercare has hitherto received little attention in either the organisational or gerontological literature, yet they may be in a position to effect institutional change. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-001113226 A
Classmark	T6: WK: P6:SJ: TOB: 4D: 7S
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