Uneasy Endings: Daily Life in an American Nursing Home
ISBN: 9781501718182
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Nursing homes -- United States; Nursing home patients -- United States;

Offering concrete suggestions for improving the quality of nursing-home life, Uneasy Endings will find a broad audience among those who work with the aged.


Renée Rose Shield is Clinical Associate Professor of Community Health at Brown University. She is the author of Diamond Stories: Enduring Change on 47th Street , also from Cornell, and coauthor of Aging in Today's World: Conversations between an Anthropologist and a Physician .

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