Last Stop
The Inside Life of an Average Nursing Home
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- Paperback
- Release Date
15 October 2026
Summary
Drawing on first-hand experience as a participant-observer in a skilled nursing facility, Last Stop records the vicissitudes of care in an institutional setting for people with advanced dementia and Parkinson’s. The erosion of mind and memory is mirrored in the nursing home’s location, a small town in Upstate New York hollowed out by the loss of its economic base.
Snapshots of interactions between residents and staff, residents and their partners, are at times comic or touching, but a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781919493701 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1919493700 |
| Author: | Mary Jacobus |
| Publisher: | Free Association Books |
| Imprint: | Free Association Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2026 |
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Mary Jacobus
Mary Jacobus is a former professor of English, a literary scholar, and a critic. She has written widely on Romanticism, feminism, psychoanalysis, and art. She lives in Ithaca, New York.
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