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Loading... Making Gray Gold: Narratives of Nursing Home Careby Timothy Diamond
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Belongs to Publisher SeriesWomen in Culture and Society (1992)
This first hand report on the work of nurses and other caregivers in a nursing home is set powerfully in the context of wider political, economic, and cultural forces that shape and constrain the quality of care for America's elderly. Diamond demonstrates in a compelling way the price that business-as-usual policies extract from the elderly as well as those whose work it is to care for them. In a society in which some two million people live in 16,000 nursing homes, with their numbers escalating daily, this thought-provoking work demands immediate and widespread attention. "[An] unnerving portrait of what it's like to work and live in a nursing home. . . . By giving voice to so many unheard residents and workers Diamond has performed an important service for us all."-Diane Cole, New York Newsday "With Making Gray Gold, Timothy Diamond describes the commodification of long-term care in the most vivid representation in a decade of round-the-clock institutional life. . . . A personal addition to the troublingly impersonal national debate over healthcare reform."-Madonna Harrington Meyer, Contemporary Sociology No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)362.160973Social sciences Social problems and services; associations Social problems of & services to groups of people People with physical illnesses Senior Care FacilitiesLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |