Caregiving Dilemma Work in an American Nursing Home

Name: Caregiving Dilemma Work in an American Nursing Home
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ISBN: 9780520203372

ISBN-10: 0520203372

ISBN-13: 9780520203372

Edition: 1996

Authors: Nancy Foner

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Along with increasing life expectancy comes the knowledge that many Americans will one day enter nursing homes. Who are the people who will care for us or for our relatives? Nancy Foner provides a major study of institutional care that focuses on nursing aides, who are the backbone of American nursing homes. She examines the strains and paradoxes facing nursing aides--asked, on the one hand, to provide compassionate care and, on the other, to cope with the pressures of the workplace and the institution. Aides are expected to look after patients, who are predominantly older women, with kindness and consideration, but nursing home regulations and bureaucratic forces often hinder even the best…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/6/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 190
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.90" long x 0.05" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Preface



Introduction



Setting the Context: The Nursing Home World



Patients: Pressures, Frustrations, and Satisfactions



Institutional Demands: The "Iron Cage" of the Nursing Home



Supervisors and the Nursing Hierarchy



Family Ties



Work Culture in the Nursing Home



Conclusion: Caregiving Dilemmas


Notes


References


Index