If you care for a parent or loved one, you almost certainly interact with doctors, nurses and other staff at hospitals, clinics or assisted living facilities. Depending on how age-friendly these professionals are, you either have felt reassured they understand the needs of your loved one — or, if not, it’s an encounter you hope to never repeat.
What makes care age-friendly? Next Avenue spent time with three caregivers to capture their experiences.
The philosophy of selfhood became real when my mother got dementia
At first, my mother, the poet Anne Atik, had seemed just ordinarily confused. Then, very gradually, the confusion took on a pathological aspect. She...
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