Counting on kindness: the dilemmas of dependency
Psychology, Health and medicine, General non-fiction, Aging (social issues)
Human-narrated audio
Summary
A Seattle mental health counselor compels attention to and sympathy for those who must rely on caregivers for their needs. From incapacitated men and women we learn of the humiliations caused by the loss of autonomy, of the frustrations at… not being able to manage on one's own. Accounts from widely different sorts of patients and those who begrudgingly or willingly see to their care provide graphic lessons in sensitivity