The Caring Class: Home Health Aides in Crisis

by Richard Schweid

The number of elderly and disabled Americans in need of home health care is increasing annually, even as the pool of people--almost always women--willing to do this job gets smaller and smaller. The Caring Class takes readers inside the reality of home health care by following the lives of women training and working as home health aides in the South Bronx.

Richard Schweid examines home health care in detail, focusing on the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501754106
• ISBN13: 9781501754104
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: ILR Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.7" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up