Into the House of Old: A History of Residential Care in British ColumbiaMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2004 - 264 pages Davies' study of institutional life is multi-textured, informed by social and architectural theory while telling us much about daily life in these facilities. We learn about angry rebellion and harsh discipline, fun and festivals, death and compassion. And we see how the twentieth century witnessed the gradual withdrawal of these institutions from the life of the community, further enhancing the marginal place of the old age home in our society. Chronicling the evolution of professional ideas about residential care facilities and an innovative program to move elderly patients out of acute care hospital beds, Into the House of Old provides a context for understanding this problematic institution as both an offspring of the poor law and a product of the post-Second World War expansion of state medical services. |
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accommodation administrators Aged and Infirm ageism Allco Annual Report Archives BCLL beds boarding homes Book for Home British Columbia bureaucrats Canada Canadian Cassidy charitable Chinese Chronic Diseases Chronically Ill Citizen's Wage early Edith Pringle facilities funding gender Government Agent Harvey Havard Health and Welfare History Home Committee Home for Aged Hospital Clearances program Ibid indigent Infirm Ladies Infirm Women beginning inmates institutionalization January Kamloops labour lives male Marpole middle-class Minute Book minutes of meeting mother Mount Saint Mary's municipal Nursing Home occupational therapy old age home old age pensions Old Men's Home Old People's Home older Ontario physiotherapists poor law poorhouse population private hospitals Provincial Home Provincial Infirmary Provincial Secretary public old age public patients residential residents Rose Manor Saanich Saint Ann Snell social welfare social workers Taylor Manor Toronto twentieth century urban VCA-CR Welfare Institutions Licensing workhouse