Making gray gold [[electronic resource] ] : narratives of nursing home care / / Timothy Diamond

• Autore: Diamond Timothy
• Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1995, c1992
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (298 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.16
• Soggetto topico: Nursing homes - United States; Nurses' aides
• Soggetto non controllato: nursing home, true story, daily life, nuse, caregiver, healthcare, health professional, career, hospital, political, politics, economical, economy, economics, cultural, culture, communication, interpersonal, relationships, elderly, old people, aging, society, business, untold stories, reform, debate, national, medicare, funding, social security, narrative
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-276) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments Introduction -- Introduction -- Part One. Mining the Raw Materials -- Part Two. Forming the Gold Bricks -- Part Three. Melting the Gold Bricks Down -- Notes -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Making gray gold
• ISBN: 1-282-53762-8; 9786612537622; 0-226-14479-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781063803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Women in culture and society.