Adaptation and aging: Life in a nursing home.

Duration: 0:15:00

Genre: Aging | Documentary | Educational

Year Published: 1978

Creator: Indiana Univ Audio Visual Center

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Investigates the cultural adaptations and adjustments made by elderly people entering the institutional environment of a nursing home.

Complete Record: , Investigates the adaptations and adjustments of one group of elderly people to life in a nursing home by intermixing scenes of a typical day with comments by anthropologist Philip Stafford, a participant observer in the home. Describes the events shown in the context of the residents' cultural adaptations to life in the nursing home. Stresses the importance of observing significant yet somewhat obscure details because "things are not always what they seem."NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

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Indiana University Library Moving Image Archive, Library of Congress

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