Television in the Nursing Home: A Case Study of the Media Consumption Routines and Strategies of Nursing Home Residents

ISBN-13: 9780367605162 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 160 str.

Wendy J. Hajjar

Opis

Television in the Nursing Home: A Case Study of the Media Consumption Routines and Strategies of Nursing Home Residents is a three-stage ethnographic study of media use in long-term care of the elderly. This research concludes that television use is the most prevalent and pervasive activity for patients. Activity directors can now learn how televis

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Contents
Introduction

• Stage One: Entering the Field
• Aging and Media Use
• Television and Social Life in the Nursing Home
• Ethnographic Methodology
• A Day in the Nursing Home
• Summary of Stage One
• Stage Two: Narrowing the Focus
• Program Preferences and Routines
• Roommates and Coordination
• Key Informants
• Summary of Stage Two
• Stage Three: Analysis and Conclusions
• The Viewing Stance
• Control and Selectivity
• Minimizing the Negatives
• Storytelling: Accentuating the Positive
• Conclusions and Recommendations
• Bibliography
• Index

O autorze

Wendy J Hajjar