Happily ever older: revolutionary approaches to long-term care

by Welsh, Moira

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Title Statements

Full title :Happily ever older : revolutionary approaches to long-term care / Moira Welsh.

Summary

"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 program in a fake town out of the 1950s, a residence where seniors school their student roommates in beer pong, and an aging-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."--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2021

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):ECW Press
Place of Publication:Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2021

The Physical Object

Description:xxvi, 245 pages : : portrait ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781770415218, 1770415211
oclc:on1196174430
LC Classification:HV1451
Dewey Decimal:362.61

Subjects

Aged elderly Établissements de soins, de cure, etc Foyers pour personnes âgées homes for the aged LONG-TERM CARE Long-term care facilities Long-term care of the sick nursing homes Old age homes Older people Older people -- Institutional care Older people -- Long-term care Personnes âgées Personnes âgées -- Soins de longue durée Personnes âgées -- Soins en institutions Soins de longue durée