"My mother was evacuated to the Co-Operative
Convalescent Home at the end of her pregnancy, along with a lot of other women from Newcastle.
More recently, the District Health Authority bought Pool Park as a
convalescent home, which housed male patients in 1937 and up to 120 during the war.
This introduction concisely encapsulated the terms that have dominated Hofer's practice since the late 1970s: The public interiors that were presented, from the forlorn dayroom of a German
convalescent home to the concrete-encased escalators of Zurich's Stadelhofen train station, were all entirely devoid of people, and were shot in a thoroughly idiosyncratic range of styles that included vast panoramas and claustrophobic corner views, sharply delineated feasts for the eye and hazily focused near snapshots.
"The concept came out of a personal need to clothe my grandmother, who was in a
convalescent home and had limited motor skills," says Jacqueline Pepe.
Starting with the prologue to Lunch at the Piccadilly, a dialogue between a beleaguered caregiver and the financial manager of the Rosehaven
Convalescent Home, Clyde Edgerton lets the reader know he is intimately acquainted with the Machiavellian intricacies of socialized medical care:
When he switch-flipped the Cooterville
Convalescent Home six-stair, only two bros cheered.
A nurse has admitted to killing at least 9 people at a
convalescent home in Lucerne.
In the mid 1950s, a little boy wrote to the headquarters of the Muttergenesungswerk, the "
convalescent home for mothers," located in Stein bei Nurnburg, West Germany.
The
convalescent home represents another antecedent of the nursing home as we know it today.
A bomb ends the festivities at midnight, and Harry seeks the owner of the jeweled shoe through the streets and Underground stations, only to be reconciled with his true love in a
convalescent home.
Kathy Hely's healing hands proved too much for bosses at the
convalescent home in Auchterarder, Perthshire.
It was originally built in 1904 as a preparatory school for boys and has also previously been used as a
convalescent home for Yorkshire miners.
