Week 11
stuck at the nursing home door
Key Questions
What is the history of nursing homes? How have they institutionalized older people?
How do disability benefit control and regulate disabled people? In what ways do they trap disabled people in poverty?
Required Materials:
Sara Luterman, “It’s Time to Abolish Nursing Homes”
Marta Russell, Capitalism and Disability, “Stuck at the Nursing Home Door”
Marta Russell, Capitalism and Disability, “Between Dependence and Independence: Rethinking a Policy Wasteland”
Tammy La Gorce, “Seeking Marriage Equality for People With Disabilities”
Mira Mehta, “Government Mandated Poverty: How US Policies Are Structured to Keep People With Disabilities in Perpetual Poverty”
Supplementary Materials:
Michael Schulson, “Amid Deadly Virus, Advocates Push for Nursing Home Alternatives”
Sophie Jin and Megan Linton, “Abolish Long-Term Care”
Marc D’Eramo, “The Biopolitics of Nursing Homes”
Ellen Clifford, The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare, and the Making of Human Catastrophe, “Welfare Reform”
Marta Russell, Capitalism and Disability, “Targeting Disability”
Azza Altiraifi, “A Deadly Poverty Trap: Asset Limits in the Time of the Coronavirus”
Julie Turkewitz and Juliet Linderman, “The Disability Trap”
Jack Delaney, “Universal Benefits Will Help People With Disabilities Escape Poverty”
Andrea Louise Campbell, “How Medicaid Forces Families Like Mine to Stay Poor”