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A Place in Time: Care Givers for Their
Elderly
(NY: Praeger Books, 1993)
The sequel to Mirrored Lives, A Place in Time tells the
personal stories of normal people, grandchildren, children, and spouses who have chosen to
care for their aging and fragile relations. In a style reminiscent of Studs Terkel, Tom
Koch collected these narratives on the front lines of the battle for senior care. From
Toronto, Canada, to Honolulu, Hawaii, he met with, listened to, and recorded the
experiences of an extraordinary group of people who care for ailing senior relatives at
home. This is what it is like, they say, to be with and to love another who is
simultaneously old and ill.
Like Oliver Sacks, the author then uses this collection to
ask: What can we learn from the experiences of others? What can these frank and intimate
stories teach us. Based on the narrative collection, he allows the narrators to answer why
they care about and for these fragile seniors, and by implication, why we as a society
should assist these efforts.
Reviews:
"Powerful first-person accounts of the daily stress of
providing for an ill elderly person are the strongest part of this book . . . highly
recommended." Library Journal.
"Each chapter gives a moving history of a caregiver's
emotions and feelings. The author has been allowed into the caregivers' confidence. The
descriptions of the pains and pleasures of the situation are vivid. Canadian Medical
Association Journal.
"While the interviews reveal the reality of
caregiving, they are not as interesting as Koch's very perceptive and inspiring analysis
of the importance of caregiving in the context of the many dehumanizing aspects of modern
life. 'What each care giver learned through caring is that one does not have to constantly
improve, to become something stronger, or better, to function as a moral arbiter or
financial genius. It is enough simply to be, to exist with one another,' Koch observers in
his final chapter." Aging Magazine.
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