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By Timothy Diamond
This primary hand document at the paintings of nurses and different caregivers in a nursing house is set powerfully within the context of wider political, monetary, and cultural forces that form and constrain the standard of take care of America's aged. Diamond demonstrates in a compelling manner the fee that business-as-usual regulations extract from the aged in addition to these whose paintings it's to take care of them.In a society within which a few million humans stay in 16,000 nursing houses, with their numbers escalating day-by-day, this thought-provoking paintings calls for fast and common attention."[An] unnerving portrait of what it truly is wish to paintings and reside in a nursing domestic. . . . via giving voice to such a lot of unheard citizens and staff Diamond has played a huge carrier for us all."—Diane Cole, big apple Newsday"With Making grey Gold, Timothy Diamond describes the commodification of long term care within the such a lot vibrant 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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39 an American white. Three were American black women, two were from the Philippines and one from Jamaica. The one other man was from Nigeria. While getting to know this group, I was reminded of a comment from a woman I visited in New Jersey during the early days of formulating my project. Flora Dobbins captured the international flavor of the group I was trying to get to know during these first few weeks of work. " I had asked her. "Oh, I guess this place is as good as any of them," she said.
The contract specified the particular nursing home corporation for which she would work, the exact city, and the starting date. "Some company has to petition you to come to work," she explained. " Although it was easy to see that Laina was a highly skilled nurse, she was not yet practicing in this country as a registered nurse. To reach this level she had to take two different tests after she arrived in the States. She was complaining about this requirement when we met. " she asked rhetorically.
4 Raises came in tiny segments-fifteen cents or perhaps a quarter. Back in the coffee shop several months earlier, Ina Williams had muttered, "It ain't hardly worth our time to come out here. 25 per hour. The bus fare was a dollar each way. Her raises did not even add up to the cost of her transportation. Rumors were rife about homes where they paid better. 50 per hour. 00 everywhere. Yet, for every rumor of higher rates, everyone seemed to know, often first-hand, places where they paid about the same as here, sometimes less.