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2020 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

4. Conversations with Carers

Authors : Hannah Grist, Ros Jennings

Published in: Carers, Care Homes and the British Media

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter brings together the voices of current and former carers to further develop the intricate picture of care and care homes already offered in the book. It explores the ways carers think about themselves, their roles and those they care for, and examines carers’ perceptions of their representation in the British media. This chapter focuses on the most recurrent themes from our conversations with carers—motivations for becoming a care worker, understandings and experiences of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ care, imaginings of their own future needs for care and, finally, carers’ responses to media representations of the role and of the homes they work in.

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Footnotes
1
See Chap. 1 on the gender breakdown of the sample used in this study.
 
2
See Chap. 1 on the role of gender in care work.
 
3
In her search for a care home for her relative, Hannah visited the home Jessica had once worked at. She found the CQC report accurately reflected an improvement in the standard of care, and, paying close attention to the décor, Hannah reported the dado rails were nowhere to be found.
 
4
In her interview, Kate described the importance of dress and choosing matching jewellery for female residents. See Twigg (2009).
 
5
See also Nizzi’s (2015) work on the context-dependency of understandings of Alzheimer’s disease.
 
6
Behind Closed Doors: Elderly Care Exposed was the name of the 2014 BBC Panorama documentary which uncovered abuse at a number of different care homes in England.
 
7
See Hannah’s autoethnography in Chap. 2 which explores her fears around covert recording in the care homes she worked in.
 
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Metadata
Title
Conversations with Carers
Authors
Hannah Grist
Ros Jennings
Copyright Year
2020
Book
Carers, Care Homes and the British Media

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-35767-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-35768-9

Copyright Year: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35768-9_4