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The Caring Class

Home Health Aides in Crisis (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work)

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The Caring Class

By: Richard Schweid
Narrated by: Chris Buchanan
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Richard Schweid examines home health care in detail, focusing on the women who tend to our elderly and disabled loved ones and how we fail to value their work. They are paid minimum wage so that we might be absent, getting on with our own lives. The book calls for a rethinking of home health care and explains why changes are urgent: the current system offers neither a good way to live nor a good way to die. By improving the job of home health aide, Schweid shows, we can reduce income inequality and create a pool of qualified, competent home health care providers who would contribute to the well-being of us all.

The Caring Class also serves as a guide into the world of our home health care system. Nearly 50 million US families look after an elderly or disabled loved one. This book explains the issues and choices they face. Schweid explores the narratives, histories, and people behind home health care in the United States, examining how we might improve the lives of both those who receive care and those who provide it.

The book is published by Cornell University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.

©2021 Cornell University (P)2025 Redwood Audiobooks

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"An extremely readable and informative book for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners alike." (ILR Review)

"Provides necessary information to understand deficiencies and challenges in the current system of home health care..." (The Gerantologist)

"A must read for anyone interested in long term care." (Tara Cortes, Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at NYU Meyers)

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