For the past decade, [Victoria] Levack has lived, reluctantly, at the Arborstone Enhanced Care...
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The staggering, exhausting, invisible costs of caring for America’s elderly
Some older adults have diligently prepared for their future. They purchased long-term care...
Benefits and disability: ‘I’ll never cohabit again, to protect myself’
Benefits exist to support people in times of need. But for some disabled people, household...
Turning Away From Nursing Homes, to What?
Regina Smith has dedicated her career to keeping seniors out of nursing homes. A geriatric social...
My Parents Got Sick. It Changed How I Thought About My Marriage
In April of the pandemic, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. It was not an optimal moment...
Will we ever take care of the carers?
At the height of the lockdown in Ottawa, Donna Thomson and her husband, Jim, went to visit their...
‘We Are Going to Keep You Safe, Even if It Kills Your Spirit’
In other care facilities and in hospitals, too, “wanderers” with dementia are believed to have...
Who’s Actually Running Ontario’s Long-Term Care Homes?
Nearly 100 of Ontario’s embattled care homes are run by third-party operators—a management...
The Food of Care Homes
The cooking of care homes, as well as the cooking of our other institutions, is often forgotten...
Caregiving In The Time Of COVID
Alexis Baden-Meyer’s mornings are complicated. She wakes up around 6 a.m., ushering herself out of...
The Happy Little Nursing Homes Outsmarting Covid-19
While many other residents of elder-care homes found themselves confined to their rooms by...
Caring in Viral Times
Like her mother, who had worked as a nurse in a factory, my mother found her calling in caring for...
A Long-Term Tragedy
Cathy Parkes never intended to put her father, Paul Parkes, in a long-term-care home. When Cathy...
The Promise That Tested My Parents Until the End
When I was still young enough to pay attention to the things my mother and father said, I would...
Covid stole my Dad’s final months
On September 16, my father died. He lived the last six months of his life entirely cut off from...
“What’s Actually Going on in Our Nursing Homes”: An Interview with Shantonia Jackson
The category that the Census calls “health care and social assistance” is the largest sector of...
Faces in a nursing home
Since mid-March, when they locked their doors to all visitors, long-term care facilities in Texas...
How my mother and I became Chinese propaganda
As A.L.S. gradually paralyzed her, while leaving her intellect intact, our years were filled with...
Cooperative Housing Is Redefining ‘Home’ for People with Disabilities
One in four Americans has a serious cognitive or physical disability that affects their daily...
Japan has the world’s oldest population. Yet it dodged a coronavirus crisis at elder-care facilities
Japan has the world’s oldest population, with an average age of 47 and a life expectancy of more...
What Happened in Room 10?
Later, the story of the Life Care outbreak would be flattened by the ubiquitous metaphors of...
Long haul through the deluge
I am a single mom caring for my semi-paralysed father in India and supporting my two sons. In...
The Perks of Roommates With a 50-Year Age Difference
From their first conversation, Nellie Goodwin knew that she and Sarah would make great roommates....
Coronavirus is renewing a call to abolish nursing homes
In the span of less than four months, Covid-19 has killed around one in every 40 nursing home...