Alexis Baden-Meyer’s mornings are complicated. She wakes up around 6 a.m., ushering herself out of...
Category: Housing
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...
Looking after their mother through a nursing home window
Lots of people visited the nursing home, but the sisters stood out because whenever they came to...
Migrant Caregivers Are Stuck With Their Bosses 24/7 Because of Coronavirus
Migrant domestic workers, the forgotten "essential workers," are working longer hours and are...
Aging in Place
About three weeks ago, my extended family extracted Louise from her assisted living facility in...
Dementia Care Gets Its Own Village
Between 2002 and 2013, the number of Canadian seniors living with dementia increased by 83...
I’m 25 and Taking Care of My Sick Dad. I’ve Never Felt Less Alone.
But unlike those who just moved home to wait out COVID-19, I’ve been home for the last two years....
Clocking In: ‘Would You Change My Mother’s Diaper for $10 an Hour?’
On a Tuesday in April, Michelle Walton woke up in Plantation, Florida, at eight. Her back hurt....
Dealing With Caregiver Guilt During The Coronavirus Crisis
As a person caregivers regularly turn to for support, Carol Zernial would seemingly have answers...
“Did I Mess This Up?” A Father Dying From Coronavirus, a Distraught Daughter and a Midnight Rescue.
Terrified residents, families and staff of the Queens Adult Care Center have watched helplessly as...
Should You Bring Mom Home From Assisted Living During The Pandemic?
With the coronavirus moving through facilities that house older adults, families across the...