We take pains to keep the nursing home at arm’s length, a cultural purgatory that haunts our worst fears about being old. Yet, as Valery Hazanov found out, it is also an instructional landscape about who we are despite our predicaments and failing health, an inconvenient truth full of cautions and lessons that call out to us from the farthest reach of our earthly journey.
Read Valery Hazanov’s article:
What working in a nursing home taught me about life, death, and America’s cultural values