Light Falls on Everything by Rebecca McClanahan (Paperback Book)

Name: Light Falls on Everything by Rebecca McClanahan (Paperback Book)
Brand: The University of North Carolina Press

The University of North Carolina Press

My father\u2019s heart, and my mother\u2019s, can still break. In this most essential way, they are still themselves. They are still here.\nTo stay together until the end was the deepest wish of Rebecca McClanahan\u2019s elderly, frail parents. So when the two of them could no longer care for themselves, Rebecca and her siblings moved them from Indiana to North Carolina, where she and her husband assumed the roles of \u201Cfirst responders\u201D with support from the extended family. Over the course of her parents' final years, Rebecca discovers that the landscape of dementia isn\u2019t entirely bleak if we can hold on long enough to rediscover in our loved ones the essential selves we feared were lost.\nLight Falls on Everything takes us inside the intimate rooms of long-term caregiving, where exhaustion,\n\nLight Falls on Everything\nA Daughter's Memoir of Caregiving, Grief, and Possibility\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery us;