Nobody's Home Free

Author: Thomas Edward Gass
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0801442435
Category: Medical

Nobody's Home: Candid Reflections of a Nursing Home Aide (Culture and Politics of Health Care Work)

"At present nursing homes are designed . Download Nobody's Home medical books for free.
. . like outmoded zoos. Residents are kept in small rooms, emotionally isolated. Occasionally they are visited by family members who reach through the bars and offer them treats. Aides keep their bodies clean and presentable. . . . America invests huge amounts of money to maintain the body while leaving the person to languish, cut off from all they love."-From Nobody's HomeAfter caring for his mother at the end of her life, Thomas Edward Gass felt drawn to serve the elderly. He took a job as a nursing home aide but was not prepared for the reality that he found at his new place of employment, a for-profit long-term-care facility. In a book that is by turns chilling and graphic, poignant and funny, Ga Get Nobody's Home our bestseller medical books.

Nobody's Home Free

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