Happily Ever Older, Moira Welsh
Happily Ever Older, Moira Welsh
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Happily Ever Older
Revolutionary Approaches to Long-Term Care

Author: Moira Welsh

Narrator: Moira Welsh

Unabridged: 8 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 02/09/2021

Synopsis

While Being Mortal (Atul Gawande) helped us understand disease and death, and Successful Aging (Daniel J. Levitin) showed us older years can be a time of joy and resilience, Happily Ever Older reveals how the right living arrangements can create a vibrancy that defies age or ability. Reporter Moira Welsh has spent years investigating retirement homes and long-term care facilities and wants to tell the dangerous stories. Not the accounts of falls or bedsores or overmedication, but of seniors living with purpose and energy and love. Stories that could change the status quo. Welsh takes readers across North America and into Europe on a whirlwind tour of facilities with novel approaches to community living, including a day program in a fake town out of the 1950s, a residence where seniors school their student roommates in beer pong, and an aging-in-place community in a forest where everyone seems to have a pet or a garden or both. The COVID-19 pandemic cruelly showed us that social isolation is debilitating, and Welsh tells stories of elders living with friendship, new and old, in their later years. Happily Ever Older is a warm, inspiring blueprint for change, proof that instead of warehousing seniors, we can create a future with strong social connections and a reason to go on living.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bonnie on January 29, 2021

Happily Ever Older is essential reading for anyone who hopes to grow old and to do so with dignity. Instead of seniors’ housing that resembles warehouses for storage, think greenhouses for growth. It’s a fundamental paradigm shift that Moira Welsh depicts through innovative housing models that have......more

Goodreads review by Katherine G. on May 26, 2021

We have done a disservice to our elderly and those with dementia, and ultimately to ourselves. Nobody is getting any younger here. It's time to stop warehousing and forgetting about those that need our care, love and attention the most. Ms. Welsh offers examples of where the system has failed and al......more

Goodreads review by Vontel on May 04, 2021

A recommended read for politicians, health care workers, anyone who is aging, and anyone who has aging family members. There are some excellent examples in Canada & internationally.......more

Goodreads review by Gerry on November 16, 2021

I think this book is overrated. Without being more specific, my wife and I could be characters in her book. True, there are some interesting stories and some innovative ideas that break down traditional norms about what is proper and appropriate in eldercare and expose some of the horrors. Yes, we h......more

Goodreads review by Rukhsar (rukhsandbooks) on December 18, 2024

Rueben Hernandez recommended this book at a talk/event I attended earlier this year. There is SO much story telling in this book. Every kind of experience unified into a singular narrative, striving for a happily ever after for our loved ones, and eventually ourselves. I definitely need to revisit thi......more

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