Labors of love : nursing homes and the structures of care work

Labors of love : nursing homes and the structures of care work / Jason Rodriquez.

Every day for the next twenty years, more than 10,000 people in the United States will turn 65. With life expectancies increasing as well, many of these Americans will eventually require round-the-clock attention-and we have only begun to prepare for the challenge of caring for them. In Labors of Lo...

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Main Author: Rodriquez, Jason, 1978- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : NYU Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Nursing homes > United States.
Nursing homes > Administration.
Older people > Nursing home care > United States.
Older people.
Nursing homes.
Hospitals, Convalescent.
elderly.
nursing homes.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Older people
Hospitals, Convalescent
Nursing homes
Nursing homes > Administration
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Locating Nursing Home Care Work; 1 Making the Most of Medicaid; 2 Staging the Inspections; 3 Documenting Conflict; 4 The Costs of Doing Business; 5 Feeding Residents on a Starving Budget; 6 The Uses of Emotions; 7 Making Sense of Death and Abuse at Work; 8 Connecting Quality of Life and Quality of Work; Appendix: From the Poorhouse to the Skilled Nursing Facility; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; About the Author.

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