A bittersweet season : caring for our aging parents and ourselves
(2011)
By:
Gross, Jane
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
306.874/GROSS,J
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Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2011]
©2011
©2011
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
350 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780307271822, 030727182X, 030727182X :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Includes index
The early heroic rush -- The myth of assisted living -- The vestiges of family medicine -- A job for professionals -- The best doctors money can buy -- September eleventh -- September twelfth -- The biology, sociology, and psychology of aging -- A nursing home thanksgiving -- The Make-A-Wish Foundation -- Follow the money -- Therapeutic fibs -- Cruel sorting -- As complicated as a Rubik's cube -- The time for talking -- N-O-W -- Dying days -- Orphans