by External Article | Dec 21, 2021 | Death & Dying |
Today, private equity firms are acquiring American hospices at an astonishing rate. From 2012 to 2019, the number of hospices owned by private equity companies tripled. The pace of acquisitions seems to have only gotten faster during the COVID-19 pandemic. Industry...
by External Article | Jul 23, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caregiver Stories |
Deborah Danner was a 66-year-old Black woman with schizophrenia. In 2016, an NYPD officer shot her in her Bronx apartment while responding to her neighbor’s call that she had been behaving erratically. She did not survive. Chillingly, Danner wrote an essay four years...
by External Article | May 25, 2018 | Baby Boom Generation, Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Finances, Millennial Generation, Planning, Working Family Caregivers |
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news here, but you are about to get sucked into a hellhole unlike anything you’ve ever previously imagined. It will devastate you, leave you emotionally spent, make you physically ill and resentful at times. It could totally derail your...
by External Article | Aug 4, 2016 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Romantic Partner |
A weakened version of the man I married was discharged a few weeks ago after a month in the hospital. My husband now gets dialysis a couple of times a week as an out-patient, sleeps a lot in between treatments, and in general feels pretty lousy served up with a...
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