A Place for Dad

Non-Fiction: Chapters/Essays/Monographs
Written By Amanda Barusch

  • Title – A Place for Dad

  • Author - Amanda Barusch

  • Genre – Non-fiction

  • Type – A chapter from the book, “Care Home Stories”

  • Publication Date – January 1, 2020

  • Publisher – Academia.edu

  • Medium – Journal

  • Available at – Academia.edu

  • Link – https://www.academia.edu/62281061/A_Place_for_Dad

  • Synopsis – Published in Care Home Stories, which Sally Chivers and Ulla Kriebernegg edited and published by Transcript Verlag, this chapter describes my family's struggle to care for my father when, in his mid-80s, he developed Alzheimer's Disease. It reveals the seamy side of the for-profit elder care “industry” in the United States and puts our experience in national and historical contexts.

Amanda Barusch

Amanda Barusch has worked as a janitor, exotic dancer, editor, and college professor. She lives in the American West, where she spends as much time as possible on dirt paths. She has an abiding disdain for boundaries and adores ambiguity. Amanda has published eight books of non-fiction, a few poems, and a growing number of short stories. Aging Angry is her first work of creative non-fiction. She uses magical realism to explore deep truths of the human experience in this rapidly changing world.

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