Making Gray Gold Narratives of Nursing Home Care

Name: Making Gray Gold Narratives of Nursing Home Care
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ISBN: 9780226144740

ISBN-10: 0226144747

ISBN-13: 9780226144740

Edition: 1992

Authors: Timothy Diamond, Catherine R. Stimpson

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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…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/15/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.93" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Mining the Raw Materials


""Welcome to the Firing Line of Health Care""


""How Do You Make It on Just One Job?""


""Where's My Social Security?""



Forming the Gold Bricks


""Why Can't I Get a Little Rest around Here?""


""If It's Not Charted, It Didn't Happen""



Melting the Gold Bricks Down


""There's Nothing Wrong with the Scale, It's the Building That's Tipped"" Now for


""A Little Rest around Here""


Notes


References


Index