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Nasty, Brutish, and Long
by
Ira Rosofsky
A coming of old-age story. In nursing homes across the country, members of the Greatest Generation are living out their last days. No matter how exciting or mundane their lives, they?re now occupying a hospital-style room?a public space where you can?t lock your door and strangers come and go. Life is a succession of pokes and prods, medications, TV, bingo, and, possibly,...more
ebook, 224 pages
Published
March 19th 2009
by Avery Publishing Group
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May 15, 2012
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Shelves:
aging,
death-and-dying,
dementia,
disability,
health,
memoir,
nonfiction,
pop-psyche,
sociology
I loved this book! Rosofsky takes his perspective as a psychologist to those in assisted living centers and nursing homes and adds his insights as a voracious reader, an East Coast dweller, and as a cultural Jewish person and delivers an oustanding book. He balances compassion, intelligence, and irony as he examines the social and emotional landscape of older adults managing (or not managing) in community living centers. Woven within his observations of residents is the story of his own father's...more
Engaging, thoughtful, a psychologist working in nursing homes offers his firsthand observations. Ranges from stats on the scale of the elder care industry(about the size of aerospace), to tips on selecting a care home (ignore the niceness of amenities, how many staff are actually available to care for residents?), to the indignities of calling a 90-year-old man "dearie" or by his first name instead of "Mr. X". Been thinking about how we as a society interact and value (or ignore and devalue) sen...more
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