The Caring Class : : Home Health Aides in Crisis / / Richard Schweid.
The number of elderly and disabled Americans in need of home care is increasing annually, even as the pool of people—almost always women—willing to do this job gets smaller and smaller. The Caring Class takes readers inside the reality of home health care by following the lives of women training and...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Not for the Fainthearted
- 2 Observe, Record, and Report
- 3 Home Care for Sale
- 4 Parasites of the Elderly
- 5 Graduation Day
- 6 Welcome to These Shores
- 7 “I Don’t Do It for the Money”
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Suggested Reading
- Index