Vulnerable Lives, Irrelevant Deaths? Dying Alone and Receiving Flawed Care in an Institution for the Aged in Lima, Peru.
Med Anthropol
; 43(6): 482-494, 2024 08 17.
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| ID: mdl-39145723
ABSTRACT
This ethnographic exploration of death in the Peruvian context draws on fieldwork among abandoned-both by their families and the state-older adults in a shelter for the homeless in Lima, Peru. I examine the conditions and local forces that shape the ways people at this institution socially and physically die. My argument is that people in this long-term care facility who have lived entire lives on the margins, usually, end up having irrelevant deaths to their families, other residents of the institution, and the Peruvian state. At this shelter, dying in an irrelevant way means dying without companionship from family members and receiving poor and flawed care from the institution that shelters them.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Antropologia Médica
Limite:
Aged
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Aged80
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
País/Região como assunto:
America do sul
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Peru
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Med Anthropol
Ano de publicação:
2024
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de publicação:
Estados Unidos