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Life and death in English nursing homes — sequestration or transition?
Author(s)	Katherine Froggatt
Journal title	Ageing and Society, vol 21, pt 3, May 2001
Pages	pp 319-332
Keywords	Terminal care ; Death ; Dying ; Nursing homes.
Annotation	Nursing homes as care institutions work to offer a home where people can live until their death. A potential conflict, however, exists as nursing homes are both a place where life is lived and where death is regularly encountered. It has been proposed that within residential care homes for older people, those who are dying are separated from the living. Drawing on fieldwork undertaken in four English nursing homes, the management of the dying process and the relationship between life and death is explored. There is much uncertainty inherent in the boundary between life and death for many residents in nursing homes. The relationship between life and death for those residents is less about the sequestration of dying people from living people, rather the creation of transitional states between these two polarities. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-011004004 A
Classmark	LV: CW: CX: LHB
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