The caregivers
Subtitle: a support group's stories of slow loss, courage, and love
By: Nell Lake
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press large print health, home & learning; Thorndike Press large print health, home & learning
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 465
ISBN-13: 9781410469724
Subjects: Self-Help Groups; Psychology; Chronically ill; Long-term care of the sick; Caregivers; Long-Term Care; Older people; Large type books; Family relationships; Methods
Description: In 2010, journalist Nell Lake began sitting in on the weekly meetings of a local hospital's caregivers support group. Soon members invited her into their lives. For two years, she observed Penny, a fifty-year-old botanist caring for her aging mother; Daniel, a survivor of Nazi Germany who tends his ailing wife; William, whose wife suffers from Alzheimer's; and others with whom all caregivers will identify. Witnessing acts of devotion and frustration, lessons in patience and in letting go, Lake illuminates the intimate exchanges of caregiving and carereceiving. Her work considers important and timely social issues with humanity, warmth, and concern: How can we care for the aging, ill, and dying with skill and compassion, even as the costs and labors of care increase? How might the medical profession take into account the needs of caregivers as well as patients?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-459).
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.