The author is a physician with more than 50 years experience. Caregivers also include nurses, a daughter who is a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, friends and neighbors, who come and go. The author expands occasionally to throw light on events, history, and medical matters. Throughout, all work together to manage common universals of old age for Melba and Bob, whose lifetime time spans the 20th century. They stay in their home until the bittersweet days of their tenth decade. The author lives in Northern California.
The Melba Notebooks: Second Edition
Family and Community Help an Elderly Couple Live Together In Their Home Into Their 10th Decade of Life
by John Loofbourow, MD
The Melba Notebooks: Second Edition
Family and Community Help an Elderly Couple Live Together In Their Home Into Their 10th Decade of Life
by John Loofbourow, MD
Published Oct 24, 2019
236 Pages
Genre: FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Eldercare
Book Details
About caregivers: children, family, friends, and community helping Bob and Melba live and die at home in their tenth decade of life.
This is a Five Year record of actual day to day caregiver written comments entered into spiral ruled notebooks. Caregivers write about the nature of old age, the gritty details of its physical, functional and mental aspects; about doctors, hospitals, hospice and bureaucracy.