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Nasty, Brutish, and Long: Adventures in Eldercare

Nasty, Brutish, and Long: Adventures in Eldercare

Rosofsky, Ira

Paperback

Aging & Elder CareHealth GeneralAlzheimer's & Dementia

ISBN10: 1583333770
ISBN13: 9781583333778
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Mar 2 2010
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.68 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Read Ira Rosofsky's posts on the Penguin Blog

A candid, humane, and improbably humorous look at the world of eldercare

In nursing homes across the country, members of the Greatest Generation are living out their last days. Life is a succession of pokes and prods, medications, TV, bingo, and, possibly, talking to Ira Rosofsky. With a compassionate eye but mordant wit, Rosofsky, a psychologist charged with gauging the mental health of his elders, reveals a culture based not in the empathy of caretaking, but rather in the coolly detached bureaucracy of Medicare and Medicaid.

A portrayal of what is increasingly becoming the last slice of life for many, Nasty, Brutish, and Long is also a baby boomer's poignant meditation on mortality, a reflection on his caregiving for his parents' final days, and an examination of the choices that we, as a society, have made about health care for the elderly who are no longer of sound mind and body.

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