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

   Nobody's Home

   Candid Reflections of a Nursing Home Aide (Culture and Politics of Health Care Work):
   • Book by Thomas Edward Gass.
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Nobody's Home- Candid Reflections of a Nursing Home Aide (Culture and Politics of Health Care Work)

Nobody's Home

Candid Reflections of a Nursing Home Aide (Culture and Politics of Health Care Work):

After 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, Gass describes America's system of warehousing its oldest citizens.

Gass brings the reader into the sterile home with its flat metal roof and concrete block walls. Like an industrial park complex, it is clean, efficient, and functional. He is blunt about the institution's goal: keep those faint hearts pumping and the life savings and Medicaid dollars rolling in. With 130 beds in the facility, the owner grosses about three million dollars annually. As a relatively well-paid aide, Gass made $6.90 an hour.

Seventeen of the twenty-six residents on Gass's hall were incontinent, and much of his initiation to the work was learning to care for them in the most intimate ways. One of the many challenges was the limited time that he had available for each of his charges—17.3 minutes per day by his calculation. Even as he learned to ignore all but the most pressing demands of the residents, he discovered the remarkable lengths to which aides and their patients will go to relieve the constant ache of loneliness at the nursing home.

With Americans living longer than ever before, elder care is among the fastest growing occupations. This book makes clear that there is a systemic conflict between profit and extent of care. Instead of controlling costs and maximizing profits, what if long-term care focused on our basic need to lead meaningful and connected lives until our deaths? What if staff members dropped the feigned hope of forestalling the inevitable and concentrated on making their charges comfortable and respected? These and other questions raised by this powerful book will cause Americans to rethink how nursing homes are run, staffed, and financed—as well as the circumstances under which we hope to meet our end.

• Review:: 'Real life stories, spot-on analysis, and gorgeous writing. A+ I added this book to my library while preparing a "reading list" of sorts for my entry into the world of managing assisted living. Although Mr. Gass' residents are skilled nursing folks, there is strong overlap if you're dealing with a high care needs population and the caregivers who work with them. For my situation - turning around a badly run facility and getting perspective on the CNA's position, it's ideal. Tom Gass is clearly an "in the trenches" story teller - but do NOT be put off by that and assume he's naive or unanalytical. Sure, the book is full of stories of coping with incontinence (aka the "poop factor"), but he has outstanding perspective on the health care and labor practices that lie behind the "incontinent war zone" he's writing about. If I have any criticism at all it's that the author could have written a bit more on the "big picture" while discussing the minute. He clearly has the mind and writing talent to tackle it. Buy this book for anyone who is underpaying a caregiver for an elder. Buy this for yourself if you are working with elders in residential care. And let's hope Mr. Gass writes some more. Honestly, there are so many learned writers out there who write badly! It's a pleasure just to read his prose. I put the book down feeling touched, energized, politicized, and in love with Tom Gass' writing style. Come on, buddy - time to write another! He belongs on the same shelf with Anne Lamott probably - although book sellers would never do that. Wry, irreverant, but ultimately in love with his subject - old people. I'm not sure what the book is doing relegated to the arcane category of "culture and politics of healthcare work." It should be sold with books on aging for non-professional readers, healthcare practice etc.. Those readers need to hear these stories - and will be grateful for the introduction. This is not a wonk's book.
• Review:: 'a way of engaging- Many have experienced the problems and fears recorded here. Waht is special is the writer's focus on how one can humanize the people otherwise robbed of their humanity. This is truly a fine ministry. His emphasis on communicating with the residents is truly a work of God,
• Review:: 'A candid and compassionate story At 189 pages, the book does a wonderful job of telling the story of a CNA who goes to work in a nursing home in the Midwest after the death of his mohter. He wants to do meaningful work that would gain depth to his character. He is not the typical aide, having spent years working and learning in a variety of areas. His past experiences and education allow him to write about the job, the nursing home, his colleagues and the residents with beautiful insight and compassion. These words in his Epilogue have stuck with me. "Few of us are prepared for what happens. First we grow up and get stronger by the day. Then one day the process reverses. At first we deny and resist, but evenutally we all surrender." Gass has some wonderful insights for people working in the LTC industry and for those of us who will one day be admitted.
• Review:: 'A male prospective on mostly women treated by mostly women 3/17/05 Mr Gass's book probably will be a great boon to educational institutions as well as employment recruiters in raising the bar financially so that more men will want to go into the non-therapy,non-physican side of health care...His book emphasis the physical challenges of the job, the "click(klatch)" environment that takes place more often than not when more than a couple of women are "in community anywhere" (it starts very young),girls in clicks,boys on teams....);it raises questions about (?) diets (those who have freedoms to have their other snacks or in cases where previous mealtrays aren't removed fast enough and those who forgot you can't swollow chicken bones etc require instinctive rescue by the health care providers;(?)acceptance of the eccentric,aggressive,annoying etc that only lunancy,dementia and Alzhemiers as illnesses are also the only calming balm for those who are there because before being admitted they were the only eccentric in their environment and "Voila", they're seeing "much "Madder". His Pg 173 emphasis the need of ministers to sermonize(which happened in the case of him sermonized to the resident Walter in Rm 301 who was dead, but whose eye lids were not closed and the oxygen line was still tucked under his nose causing a mechanical rattle).Gass showed in that chaper ("Back On Days") as well that you can have 6 persons scheduled to work and 5 call in sick which means you then have to proceed to implore those who are already doing more than "maximum" overtime to burn themselves out a little more by coming in on a day off..Gass does not mention that he, himself ever took the luxury of taking a "sick day" to treat his own overwhelmed physical,mental & emotional system.
• Review:: 'Touching Portrait of Reality Mr. Gass has truly captured the emotional hardship present within the American nursing home. A candid, unbiased look at the system which provides us with our eventual destination, "Nobody's Home" speaks to the mind as well as the spirit. Never have I been so moved by one man's everyday experiences.

• Similar books:
• Culture Change in Long-Term Care
• What Are Old People For?- How Elders Will Save the World
• It Shouldn't Be This Way- The Failure Of Long-Term Care
• Life Worth Living- How Someone You Love Can Still Enjoy Life in a Nursing Home - The Eden Alternative in Action
• Deep Change- Discovering the Leader Within (Jossey-Bass Business & Management Series)

Health at Home®- Your Complete Guide to Symptoms, Solutions & Self-Care

Health at Home®

Your Complete Guide to Symptoms, Solutions & Self-Care: