By Laura Katz Olson
ISBN-10: 1438460732
ISBN-13: 9781438460734
ISBN-10: 1438460740
ISBN-13: 9781438460741
For thousands of american citizens caregiving is the “new normal.” For Laura Katz Olson, a revered researcher of long term take care of the getting older, Elder Care Journey chronicles the disruption of her global and the way it's upended by way of the ever-increasing long-distance wishes of her personal mother.
A fit, Senior Olympics medal winner, Olson’s mom is slowly and progressively incapacitated through Parkinson’s ailment and a steady lack of imaginative and prescient. Thrust right into a long-distance caregiving function, Olson unearths her earlier educational notions approximately helping a frail mother or father more and more at odds with the truth of the lived event. In a story jam-packed with “ah-ha!” moments, tears, sighs, and outrage that would be primary to many, Olson opens a window into the nursing domestic and residential care industries that eat a lot within the method of taxpayer cash, yet frequently fail to bring caliber care. Olson’s own tale vividly demonstrates not just the overpowering bureaucratic obstacles confronted via care-dependent seniors but additionally their beleaguered grownup children’s makes an attempt to make sure their mom and dad’ wellbeing and fitness, defense, and well-being.
Laura Katz Olson is Professor of Political technological know-how at Lehigh collage and the writer and editor of many books, together with The Politics of Medicaid and The Not-So-Golden Years: Caregiving, the Frail aged, and the long term Care Establishment. She lives in Wind hole, Pennsylvania.
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