"I see it as a feminist issue, too. The brunt of hands-on caregiving falls on elderly wives and daughters like me. There is something like 21 million people involved in caregiving for people over 75. We’re becoming exhausted, and we get very little social support. But as this group becomes more conscious, I think things will change, because baby boomers are famous for questioning authority and working as a group to challenge the status quo. If we succeeded in transforming birth, I swear we can do the same thing for death. And I still think you’re underestimating the non-educated person. I’ve gone to makeup counters several times to prepare for this book launch, and when I tell the people working there what my book’s about, we end up having the deepest conversations. People have tears in their eyes. They tell me about how their grandmother is exhausted taking care of the grandfather, who had one of these last-ditch surgeries and now is very demented. Those conversations have really given me hope."
Posted on: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 16:55:57 +0000
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