Making Gray Gold

""The graying of America," a financial journal reported, "is a guaranteed opportunity for someone. How the nursing home industry can exploit it is the real question." For sociologist Timothy Diamond, this assertion raised an altogether different question: How has the day-to-day care of the elderly come to be defined as an industry in the United States - and how, as a business, does it work? Diamond, who trained as a nursing assistant and spent over a year working in Chicago area nursing homes, recounts his experiences in Making Gray Gold, an absorbing, original account of how - and how well -…