The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey

How the Arts Can Change Care for Elders and People with Disabilities

Yesterday morning, a veteran of the decades-long effort to improve the way we deliver and pay for long-term supports and services asked me a question. Why, he wondered, should he believe that recent attempts to reform long-term care could succeed when so many previous initiatives have failed. Last evening, I may have found an answer. My wife and I went to see [...]

By Howard Gleckman|2013-05-01T15:38:53-04:00May 1st, 2013|Aging, Health reform, long term care reform|0 Comments

Walter Mosley On Becoming Marginalized in Old Age

Yesterday, I participated in an AARP program with several authors of books on caregiving. One fellow panelist, the novelist Walter Mosley, was wonderfully provocative as he reflected on what he calls “the great equalizing effect of great age.” Mosley, whose mother was Jewish and whose father was black, put it this way: “White people become black people when they can [...]

By Howard Gleckman|2011-12-02T16:08:27-05:00December 2nd, 2011|Aging, dementia, End of life, family caregivers|0 Comments