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The caregivers a support group's stories of slow loss, courage, and love

"From a gifted writer who spent two years in a support group for people caring for elderly and ill spouses, parents, and friends, The Caregivers chronicles the daily experiences--heart-breaking, poignant, and redemptive--of ordinary Americans as they face their final life passages"--Provided by publ...

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Main Author: Lake, Nell (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Scribner, [2014]
Edition:First Scribner hardcover edition February 2014.
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Long-term care of the sick.
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Summary:"From a gifted writer who spent two years in a support group for people caring for elderly and ill spouses, parents, and friends, The Caregivers chronicles the daily experiences--heart-breaking, poignant, and redemptive--of ordinary Americans as they face their final life passages"--Provided by publisher.
Physical Description:304 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781451674149 (hardback : alk. paper)
1451674147 (hardback : alk. paper)
Author Notes:Nell Lake, a journalist and magazine writer, was the founding editor of the Nieman Narrative Digest at the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University. She has written for The Boston Globe , Yankee , Harvard Magazine , and other publications, and has reported for public radio. She lives with her family in western Massachusetts.

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