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
Summary
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 Love, Jason Rodriquez examines the world of the fast-growing elder care industry, providing a nuanced and balanced portrait of the day-to-day lives of the people and organizations that devote their time to supporting America's aging population. Through extensive ethnographic research, interviews with
