Making Gray Gold

Timothy Diamond

""The graying of America," a financial journal reported, "is a guaranteed opportunity for someone. How the nursing home industry can exploit it is the real question." For sociologist Timothy Diamond, this assertion raised an altogether different question: How has the day-to-day care of the elderly come to be defined as an industry in the United States - and how, as a business, does it work? Diamond, who trained as a nursing assistant and spent over a year working in Chicago area nursing homes, recounts his experiences in Making Gray Gold, an absorbing, original account of how - and how well - nursing homes work." "Nursing assistants, who do the bulk of caring work in nursing homes, are for the most part minority women, few of whom earn enough to support themselves and their families.^ Diamond observes many nursing assistants working in ways that managed to bolster the dignity and...

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