Dancing with Rose Quotes

“The problem is understaffing. The problem is undertraining. The problem is high caregiver turnover. The problem is paying minimum wage. The problem is the eldercare industry. (I could go on, and so I will: The problem is undervaluing the elderly. The problem is fear of aging. The problem is fear of dying.)”
― Lauren Kessler, Dancing with Rose: Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer: One Daughter's Hopeful Story

“They play like file clerks file.”
― Lauren Kessler, Dancing with Rose: Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's

“It must be the nowness of this disease that, in stealing the past and obscuring the future, forces us, the healthy and the ill, to stay in the moment.”
― Lauren Kessler, Dancing with Rose: Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's