Language practices in caregiving in a South African nursing home: conflict and tension

Makoni, Sinfree

doi:10.21504/sajg.v7i2.147

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“…Withuis is racially and demographically comparable to other residential frail care or old age homes nationally (Makoni 1998;Coetzee 1999;Sagner 2000;Van Dongen and Ferreira 2004). Administrators and the majority of lead nurses were white women.…”

Section: Ethnography At the Homementioning

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“Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is a Mystery”: Dying in South African Frail Care

Golomski

2020

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What happens when we die? This article traces answers to this question posed to staff and residents of a nursing (frail care) home in small-town South Africa run by a Christian women’s charitable organization. The religious, cultural, and racial diversity of staff and residents, along with their different medical understandings of declining health and death constellate expansive perceptions of dying and life after death. Staff and residents share certainty about the continuity of a soul or spirit after death through a Christian God, although precise locations and modes of egress for these spiritual entities are uncertain. Heaven and hell are not strongly defined or taken for granted realities. A presentist rather than historical orientation strongly shapes the rhythms of daily life and the end of life in the home. Residents aim to find meaning in daily life and staff aim to find meaning in aiding residents in the final moments of life by being tenderly co-present. Overall, peoples’ perceptions of spatiotemporal transitions from life to the immediate after-life effectively complicate notions of immanence in the anthropology of morality, ethics, and religion. To use one informant’s terms, the end of life is “a mystery” which residents and staff engage in delicate orchestrations of carework.

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Section: Ethnography At the Homementioning

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“Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is a Mystery”: Dying in South African Frail Care

Golomski

2020

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“…The theories may be applied, for example, as suggested by Bengtson et al (1997), in narrative analysis with residents o f old people's homes and in the eth nography of nursing-home care. (Makoni (1998) has con ducted studies using social constructionist theory within these areas in Cape Town, South Africa.) Similarly, the theo ries may be applied in studies on the social and cultural con struction of frailty and the social meaning of being very old in Africa.…”

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Building and advancing African gerontology

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1999

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Language practices in caregiving in a South African nursing home: conflict and tension

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“Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is a Mystery”: Dying in South African Frail Care

“Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is a Mystery”: Dying in South African Frail Care

Building and advancing African gerontology

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