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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 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"
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