By Timothy Diamond
This primary hand file at the paintings of nurses and different caregivers in a nursing house is set powerfully within the context of wider political, fiscal, and cultural forces that form and constrain the standard of deal with America's aged. Diamond demonstrates in a compelling means the fee that business-as-usual regulations extract from the aged in addition to these whose paintings it's to deal with them.In a society during which a few million humans dwell in 16,000 nursing houses, with their numbers escalating day-by-day, this thought-provoking paintings calls for speedy and common attention."[An] unnerving portrait of what it is prefer to paintings and dwell in a nursing domestic. . . . through giving voice to such a lot of unheard citizens and employees Diamond has played an enormous carrier for us all."—Diane Cole, manhattan Newsday"With Making grey Gold, Timothy Diamond describes the commodification of long term care within the such a lot bright illustration in a decade of round the clock institutional lifestyles. . . . a private addition to the troublingly impersonal nationwide debate over healthcare reform."—Madonna Harrington Meyer, modern Sociology
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