CJCCN, Volume 22, Number 3, Fall 2011

In recent months I have spent a lot of time in hospitals with my two elderly parents, both with health issues. Sadly, my dad passed away recently at the age of 85 in a Veteran’s long-term care dementia unit. He had been cared for lovingly at home by my mother, 83, until March of this year. As I write this article in mid July, my mother is recovering in a geriatric “restorative care” unit after having her artificial,