Carers, Care Homes and the British Media : Time to Care
ISBN: 9783030357689
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Springer International Publishing AG
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time
Subjects: Health; Social Science;

This book focuses on the relationship between the media and those who work as paid care assistants in care homes in Britain. It explores this relationship in terms of the contemporary cultural and personal understandings of care work and care homes that have developed as the role has emerged as increasingly socially and economically significant in society. Three strands of analysis are integrated: an examination of the representations of paid care workers in the British media; the experiences of current and former care workers; and the autoethnographic reflections of the authors who have experiences of working as care assistants. The book offers a rich contextual and experiential account of the responsibilities, challenges, and emotions of care work in British society. Grist and Jennings make a case for the need to better value and more accurately represent care work in contemporary media accounts.

Hannah Grist is Co-Director of the Centre for Women Ageing and Media (WAM) at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. Her research interests lie in ageing studies, media and cultural studies, and qualitative methodologies. Alongside Ros Jennings, she is co-author of a chapter in Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture: Reflections, Refractions, Reimaginings (2017).
Ros Jennings is Co-Director of the Centre for Women Ageing and Media (WAM), and Professor of Ageing, Culture and Media at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. Her research focuses on older age identities in relation to popular music, popular television, and late style performances. She is author of The WAM Manifesto (2012).

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