Bordered aging : ethnography of daily life in a Filipino home for the aged /

Somera, Rene D.

Bordered aging : ethnography of daily life in a Filipino home for the aged / Rene D. Somera. - xiv, 297 pages : illustrations 22 cm.

Explores the interactions between aging and culture by considering the fabric of everyday understanding, social structure, subjective views, and human bonds that provide complexity to the ongoing social life in a Filipino home for the aged. It presents a detailed description, analysis and interpretation of the daily modes of institutional living in a Third World context.

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Aged -- Cross-cultural studies.
Aged -- Philippines.
Gerontology.

HQ 1064.P6 / .So53 1997