Melanie Joosten

Long Time Coming (eBook, ePUB)

essays on ageing

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 NIB: WAVERLEY LIBRARY AWARD FOR LITERATUREA powerful collection of essays exploring what it means to grow old in our youth-obsessed worldTo live a long life should be a joy; to be old should not be a burden.With improved health care and higher standards of living, each generation is living longer than the last. Governments see our ageing population as an imminent disaster, and old age as a medical problem. We are encouraged to remain active, stay healthy, and work longer - in short, to refuse becoming old. But if living longer is really about staying young, do we risk turning a blind eye to issues facing the elderly?Weaving interviews with research and memoir, Joosten undertakes a timely and clear-sighted investigation into the housing crisis as it affects older people, the politics of nursing-home care, the difficulties of dementia, support services for Indigenous Australians, and how the burden of caring for others can fall disproportionately on women.Moving, passionate, and urgent,A Long Time Comingis a call for empathy in a society that valorises youth and self-reliance - a profound reminder that everyone has the right to be old.PRAISE FOR MELANIE JOOSTEN'[A] fine collection shows deep commitment and quite profound levels of insight and compassion.' The Weekend Australian'Heartening [Joosten has] a novelist's feel for the texture of life.' The Sydney Morning Herald

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scribe Publications Pty Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781925307504
• Artikelnr.: 45492394