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The population of older adults has grown rapidly in recent years and is expected to continue to grow into the middle of this century. The aging of the population means that nurses need to have specialized gerontological knowledge in order to properly care for older adults. In spite of the current need for specialists in this field, gerontological nursing is not a popular choice and nurses often lack adequate preparation to care for older adults. The complex reasons behind these issues are rooted in the history of the development of this specialty. This study takes a historical look at the development of gerontological nursing in British Columbia through the stories of seven nurse educators who were leaders and innovators in their field. The findings of the study tell a story of the nurses’ work to change unacceptable nursing practice, improve standards of care and professional status of gerontological nursing and advocate for older adults. In doing so, these nurses challenged cultural values about aging and care of older adults and worked toward giving gerontological nurses a voice in policy and decision-making. The findings from this study can be used to guide today’s gerontological nurses as they continue to develop this specialized field of nursing knowledge.

Thesis--PlanB (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references.

The thesis is a qualitative research project examining the lives of Japanese women who have lived in England long-term (defined as two or more years). It is based on oral history interviews with 16 Japanese women ranging in age from 26 to 51, and categorised into four groups: students, career women, women married to or divorced from British men, and company wives (women who accompany their Japanese husbands on company postings). The methodological section is an exploration of the cultural and linguistic issues involved in carrying out a cross-cultural oral history project. Cultural factors examined include uchi/soto (inside/outside), tatemae/honne (public truth/private truth), and omote/ura (front/back knowledge). Linguistic issues covered include the advantages and disadvantages of interviewing in Japanese and in English, dialogue, mood, non-verbal communication, transcription and presentation. This section is an examination of what can be gained or lost through crosscultural interviewing, and a consideration of how far Western methodologies can be applied to historical research with interviewees who are of Eastern origin. The research findings section begins with profiles of the interviewees, examination of their socio-economic backgrounds, and analysis of their reasons for going abroad and for their choice of England as their destination. Subsequent chapters examine the views and experiences of the women in four areas: education, work, relationships, and the lives of the company wives in the expatriate community. The final two chapters analyse common themes: adaptation and alienation, discrimination, segregation, migration identities, status and internationalism. This is an interdisciplinary study dealing with aspects of gender, migration, oral history, and Japanese society

This thesis explores how old people in Oxford were cared for between 1930 and 1960, before and after the inception of the welfare state. Its purpose is to analyse how some families and professionals responded to the transition from the poor law to the welfare state, and examine any changes in this process. Admission to a state institution was usual for old people who were without financial and social resources. In Oxford the Cowley Road Hospital, originally built as a workhouse in the nineteenth century provided this treatment over this period of time. The thesis investigates the relationship of this institution to the broader community in relation to the care of old people. From the 1930s geriatric medicine, a speciality emerged spearheaded by Dr Marjory Warren, geriatric medicine. Early pioneers of geriatric medicine, working in state run institutions, were advocating the need for change in provision for old people, and this study examines their role in this process of change. Within this group of doctors, Dr Lionel Cosin, an initiator and influencer of change and policy in post-war care for old people, was appointed to the Cowley Road Hospital soon after the inception of the welfare state. This thesis, seeks to discover, in conjunction with the changes arising from the introduction of the welfare state, if old people in Oxford benefited from his position. By using oral histories as a major source of evidence, alongside documentary sources, this investigation aims to bring fresh perspectives to the study of the process of ageing. Within the context of national legislative changes, it discovers how a city responded to these, and juxtaposes how families cared for their older relatives. Each chapter examines aspects that contributed to changing provision and attitudes towards old people by professionals and relatives. Local evidence is compared with national to suggest that the city was progressive in its care and attitudes towards old people.

This is the life history of Rend Percente from Little Farmer's Cay, Exuma, Bahamas. When the University of Arizona-College of the Bahamas research team visited Little Farmer's Cay during the Bahamas Biocomplexity Project, Rend asked the team to record his story. This document reflects this effort.

The population of older adults has grown rapidly in recent years and is expected to continue to grow into the middle of this century. The aging of the population means that nurses need to have specialized gerontological knowledge in order to properly care for older adults. In spite of the current need for specialists in this field, gerontological nursing is not a popular choice and nurses often lack adequate preparation to care for older adults. The complex reasons behind these issues are rooted in the history of the development of this specialty. This study takes a historical look at the development of gerontological nursing in British Columbia through the stories of seven nurse educators who were leaders and innovators in their field. The findings of the study tell a story of the nurses’ work to change unacceptable nursing practice, improve standards of care and professional status of gerontological nursing and advocate for older adults. In doing so, these nurses challenged cultural values about aging and care of older adults and worked toward giving gerontological nurses a voice in policy and decision-making. The findings from this study can be used to guide today’s gerontological nurses as they continue to develop this specialized field of nursing knowledge.

The thesis aims to explore the experiences of minority ethnic women accountants in the UK through the use of the oral history method. It seeks to give visibility to the experience(s) of professional women accountants from minority ethnic communities who have to date remained largely invisible in accountancy literature. It is argued that part of the reason for this invisibility lies in the methods employed in accounting research and the operation of statistics issued by the accounting profession. The author argues that one way round this can be achieved through the use of oral history. Although recent studies in the field of accounting have focused upon issues relating to gender, much of the literature remains silent with respect to qualitative material which illuminates women's lived experiences of accountancy. Furthermore, the experience(s) of women accountants from minority ethnic communities is invisible in the accountancy literature. This is because much of the literature ignores cultural diversity and treats women as a homogenous group, that is white and middle-class. This invisibility is reinforced further as women from minority ethnic communities are absent from the official gender statistics which are (re)produced by the accounting profession. Five oral histories are presented, explored and analyzed, together with the author's own life history. It is suggested that an exploration of oral narratives cannot take place without acknowledgment and making visible of the researcher's own life history and presence in the construction and exploration of oral narratives. The empirical material in the form of oral narratives reveals the presence of various invisible and visible forms of gender and ethnicity which appear to operate through a variety of forms in the structured work and workplace of accounting. Some possibilities for making issues of gender and ethnicity visible in accountancy are further explored.

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