[DOWNLOAD] "Making Gray Gold" by Timothy Diamond # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free

eBook details
- Title: Making Gray Gold
- Author : Timothy Diamond
- Release Date : January 12, 2009
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 766 KB
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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 Americaâs 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.
â[An] unnerving portrait of what itâs 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.ââDiane Cole, New York Newsday
âWith 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.ââMadonna Harrington Meyer, Contemporary Sociology