Light Falls On Everything

Name: Light Falls On Everything
Brand: The University of North Carolina Press

The University of North Carolina Press

Light Falls on EverythingA Daughter's Memoir of Caregiving, Grief, and Possibility\nAuthor(s): Rebecca McClanahan\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of North Carolina Press, United States\nImprint: The University of North Carolina Press\nISBN-13: 9781469693217, 978-1469693217\nSynopsis\nMy fathers heart, and my mothers, can still break. In this most essential way, they are still themselves. They are still here.\n\nTo stay together until the end was the deepest wish of Rebecca McClanahans 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 first responders with support from the extended family. Over the course of her parents' final years, Rebecca discovers that the landscape of dementia isnt entirely bleak if we can hold on long enough to rediscover in our loved ones the essential selves we feared were lost.\n\nLight Falls on Ev.