The caregivers
Subtitle: a support group's stories of slow loss, courage, and love
By: Nell Lake
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781451674149
Subjects: Long-term care facilities; Caregivers; Self-help groups; Long-term care of the sick; Psychology
Description: "From a gifted writer who spent two years in a support group for people caring for elderly and ill spouses, parents, and friends, The Caregivers chronicles the daily experiences--heart-breaking, poignant, and redemptive--of ordinary Americans as they face their final life passages"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-302).
Table of contents: title: Winter : storms; title: Spring : assisted living; title: Summer : "never forget"; title: Fall and early winter : the far shore; title: Another year unfolds.