The Institutional Practice: On nursing homes and hospitalizations
Synopsis
The nursing home resident of today is old and frail. Despite such a frailty, many residents are hospitalized, often with the intention of life-extension. Furthermore, rates of hospitalization varies considerably between countries, regions and institutions, even within smaller geographical areas. Even though relating to the same structural framework and conditions, distance to hospitals for instance, some nursing homes hospitalize considerably more than others.
In this book, variation of hospitalization from nursing homes is analyzed and discussed, based on fieldwork from six institutions. Decisions concerning whether to hospitalize or not, are seen as relating to general regimes of practices at nursing homes; called The institutional practice.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Gudmund Ågotnes
Gudmund Ågotnes holds a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Bergen, Norway, and currently holds the position of postdoc at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. Through an empirical focus on the health- and care sector, and nursing homes in particular, Ågotnes´research have covered themes such as the logic of practice within the health sector, organizational features of care work, multiculturalism and variation in services and practice. Ågotnes has particularly addressed the issue of cross-national comparison within the health- and care sector and has carried out research in Norway, the United States, Canada and the UK.
Gudmund Ågotnes
Gudmund Ågotnes holds a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Bergen, Norway, and currently holds the position of postdoc at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. Through an empirical focus on the health- and care sector, and nursing homes in particular, Ågotnes´research have covered themes such as the logic of practice within the health sector, organizational features of care work, multiculturalism and variation in services and practice. Ågotnes has particularly addressed the issue of cross-national comparison within the health- and care sector and has carried out research in Norway, the United States, Canada and the UK.
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