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Aged or Caged? Concepts of Space in Nursing Home Narratives - A Cultural Gerontological Analysis. Dr. Ulla Kriebernegg, Center for Inter-American Studies, University of Graz

The nursing home is "a micro-complex of architectural, administrative, financial, clinical, familial, symbolic, and emotional interactions and power relations” (204). Stephen Katz. Disciplining Old Age: The Formation of Gerontological Knowledge. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996.

The Nursing Home Specter: Aged and Caged in a Total Institution? Her new home, sweet home . …This will be fine. Fine enough. It only takes getting used to, and a little while to get settled. It'll be a shock for a while, being incarcerated in this genteel, open-doored prison. (16)

Betty Friedan The Fountain of Age (1993) Nursing Home Specter “death sentences, the final interment from which there is no exit but death“ (510).

“total institution“ "place of residence and work where a large number of like-situated individuals, cut off from the wider society for an appreciable period of time, together lead an enclosed, formally administered round of life" (Goffman, Asylums, xiii).

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