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Hardcover Making Gray Gold: Narratives of Nursing Home Care Book

ISBN: 0226144739

ISBN13: 9780226144733

Making Gray Gold: Narratives of Nursing Home Care

(Part of the Women in Culture and Society Series)

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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...

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More than a collection of stories

I was assigned this book as part of my college course curriculum (in an anthropology of aging class) and it's the only "textbook" I have held onto since graduating 4 years ago. Timothy Diamond blends a wonderful collage; weaving the life stories of the elderly and their caregivers along with proffering sage advice and caution about the state nursing homes in America. This is more than a book, it's a call to action.
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