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	• Nobody's Home: Candid Reflections of a Nursing Home Aide Thomas Edward Gass Cornell University Press, 2005 - 224 pages average customer review:based on 7 reviews view larger image
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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.

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.

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