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Happily Ever Older

Revolutionary Approaches to Long-Term Care

ISBN-13: 9781773056616

Author(s): Moira Welsh

Subjects: JK

Publisher: Ecw Press

Publisher Imprint: Ecw Press Digital

Publication Date: 16-03-2021

Format: Ebook

Availability: In stock

£9.99
Happily Ever Older

About the book

While Being Mortal (Atul Gawande) helped us understand disease and death, and Successful Aging (Daniel J. Levitin) showed us older years can be a time of joy and resilience, Happily Ever Older reveals how the right living arrangements can create a vibrancy that defies age or ability. Reporter Moira Welsh has spent years investigating retirement homes and long-term care facilities and wants to tell the dangerous stories. Not the accounts of falls or bedsores or overmedication, but of seniors living with purpose and energy and love. Stories that could change the status quo. Welsh takes readers across North America and into Europe on a whirlwind tour of facilities with novel approaches to community living, including a day programme in a fake town out of the 1950s, a residence where seniors school their student roommates in beer pong, and an ageing-in-place community in a forest where everyone seems to have a pet or a garden or both. The COVID-19 pandemic cruelly showed us that social isolation is debilitating, and Welsh tells stories of elders living with friendship, new and old, in their later years. Happily Ever Older is a warm, inspiring blueprint for change, proof that instead of warehousing seniors, we can create a future with strong social connections and a reason to go on living.