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What are we going to do with dad?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Winakur, Jerald |
| Copyright Year | 2005 |
| Abstract | My father is 86 years old. He was never a big man, except perhaps to me when I was his little boy. At most he was 5 feet 2 inches tall and weighed 160 pounds. Today he weighs barely 120. Maybe he is 5 foot 2. He teeters on spindly legs, a parched blade of grass in the wind, refusing the walker his doctor recommends or the arm extended by those of us who love him. He doesn't know what day it is. Shaving exhausts him. His clothes hang like a scarecrow's. He is nearly deaf but won't wear his hearing aids or loses them as often as a kid might misplace his marbles. He drives my mother -five years younger -crazy to tears. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1377/hlthaff.24.4.1064 |
| PubMed reference number | 16012147 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 24 |
| Issue Number | 4 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.momj47.com/pdf/The%20Old%20Old.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/24/4/1064.full.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://huzurevleri.org.tr/docs/WINAKUR_J_WhatAreWeGoingToDoWithDad.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.24.4.1064 |
| Journal | Health affairs |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
