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Making Gray Gold: Narratives of Nursing Home Care [Paperback]

Timothy Diamond (Author)
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The author's sympathetic account of nursing-home residents and their caregivers is energized by his own experience as a certified nursing assistant in three Chicago nursing homes. In an environment shaped by profit-driven managers and government regulators and where kindness, common sense, and good humor are, unfortunately, not easily quantified and regulated, Diamond describes how residents and workers share common experiences of poverty, powerlessness, and regimentation. He recounts their struggles, frequently with grace and courage, to maintain their dignity and independence. A scholarly but accessible writer, Diamond concludes with recommendations for change. Appropriate for both general and academic collections concerned with healthcare issues.
- Kathy Arsenault, Univ. of South Florida-St. Petersburg Lib.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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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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5.0 out of 5 stars A must read!, Sep 28 2009
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"Making Grey Gold" is a wonderful example of Institutional Ethnography and the manner in which the managerial efficiency of the nursing care industry overrides and erases the senior residents' realities, replacing them with processes and criteria that are capable of being evaluated with "scientific efficiency". Diamond's research and writing breathes life into concepts such as "objectifying social relations" "textually organized" "disjuncture" and "standpoint" making them real and vibrant terms.
The reader is moved both by Diamond's dedication to his research and by his writing style. The level of description makes reading more than a cognitive experience- one can almost visualise, hear and smell the environment he describes and feel the pain, anxiety, fear and loneliness of the elderly residents and the dilemmas faced by the nursing assistants. His sensitivity shines through his writing. The last chapter provide alternate ways in which the care provided in nursing homes can be conceptualised, and is an urgent call to the residents and their families to take back some of the agency they have been deprived of through the institutional processes.
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5.0 out of 5 stars More than a collection of stories, April 24 2002
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I was assigned this book as part of my college course curriculum (in an anthropology of aging class) and it's the only "textbook" I have held onto since graduating 4 years ago. Timothy Diamond blends a wonderful collage; weaving the life stories of the elderly and their caregivers along with proffering sage advice and caution about the state nursing homes in America. This is more than a book, it's a call to action.
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5.0 out of 5 stars More than a collection of stories, April 24 2002
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I was assigned this book as part of my college course curriculum (in an anthropology of aging class) and it's the only "textbook" I have held onto since graduating 4 years ago. Timothy Diamond blends a wonderful collage; weaving the life stories of the elderly and their caregivers along with proffering sage advice and caution about the state nursing homes in America. This is more than a book, it's a call to action.

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This book, which is a personal history of a Sociology professor working as a certified nursing assistant (CNA) in nursing homes in the Chicago area, must be mandatory reading and study for any licensed professional who is studying to provide care in the 21st century. I studied with Tim Diamond in an applied gerontology program in Los Angeles in the early 1990s, and was well-prepared for my new career as an RN/BSN providing home health and
hospice care at home -- which includes nursing homes. Tim is a wonderful teacher and a sensitive, kind soul. Precisely the sort of person, who is sadly rare, we would like to care for our aging loved ones.
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