This very first hand report on the work of nurses and other caregivers in a retirement home is set strongly in the context of larger political, financial, and cultural forces that form and constrain the quality of care for America’s senior. Diamond demonstrates in an engaging way the rate that business-as-usual policies extract from the senior in addition to those whose work it is to look after them. In a society in which some 2 million people live in 16,000 nursing homes, with their numbers escalating daily, this thought-provoking work needs immediate and widespread attention. “[An] unnerving picture of what it resembles to work and reside in an assisted living home … By offering voice to numerous unheard locals and workers Diamond has carried out an important service for us all.”– Diane Cole, New York City Newsday “With Making Gray Gold, Timothy Diamond explains the commodification of long-term care in the most vibrant representation in a years of day-and-night institutional life … A personal addition to the troublingly impersonal national argument over health care reform.”– Madonna Harrington Meyer, Contemporary Sociology
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