The Caregivers
A Support Group's Stories of Slow Loss, Courage, and Love
$44.42
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
14 April 2015
Summary
A moving, intimate, and compassionate book that chronicles the experiences of a group of long-term caregivers—spouses, parents, and friends of the elderly and ill—illuminating critical issues of old age, end-of-life care, medical reform, and social policy, and “providing comfort in the time-honored form of shared experience.”
In 2010, journalist Nell Lake began sitting in on the weekly meetings of a local hospital’s caregivers support group. Soon, members invited her into their lives.…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781451674156 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1451674155 |
| Author: | Nell Lake |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 14 April 2015 |
| Weight: | 277g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 137mm x 211mm |
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Critics Review
“A beautifully written account of a year in the life of caregivers…The Caregivers is as elegantly constructed as a novel, but more than that, Lake writes about these people with such warmth and vividness that they feel as memorable as our favorite fictional characters. In sharing these stories with readers, Lake has written a book that bears witness to their ‘necessary, intimate, private heroism.’”
Nell Lake
Nell Lake is a journalist and magazine writer. She was the founding editor of the Nieman Narrative Digest at the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University. Her writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, Yankee, Harvard Magazine, and other publications, and she has reported for public radio. She lives with her family in western Massachusetts.
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