The Caregiving Dilemma: Work in an American Nursing Home

by Nancy Foner

Book Overview

Along with increasing life expectancy comes the knowledge that many Americans will one day enter nursing homes. Who are the people who will care for us or for our relatives? Nancy Foner provides a major study of institutional care that focuses on nursing aides, who are the backbone of American nursing homes. She examines the strains and paradoxes facing nursing aides-asked, on the one hand, to provide compassionate care and, on the other, to cope...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520203372
• ISBN13: 9780520203372
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"