Singing Solo: In Search of a Voice for Mom
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Author: JacLynn Herron
Description: As dementia transported her mother into a world devoid of memory, language, and ability, the author shed denial and began a ceaseless struggle for the only “treatment” that her mother needed: compassionate care. Singing Solo: In Search of a Voice for Mom relates a family’s true story of the perils of growing old and vulnerable in America.
Reviews:
“JacLynn Herron has poignantly captured the struggles and the gratifications of caregiving. She carefully documents the frustrations of dealing with an institutional system that does not practice patient-centered care despite its protestations. Her story of her mother's decline is told with love, but it offers important lessons that everyone involved in long-term care should learn.”
Description: As dementia transported her mother into a world devoid of memory, language, and ability, the author shed denial and began a ceaseless struggle for the only “treatment” that her mother needed: compassionate care. Singing Solo: In Search of a Voice for Mom relates a family’s true story of the perils of growing old and vulnerable in America.
Reviews:
“JacLynn Herron has poignantly captured the struggles and the gratifications of caregiving. She carefully documents the frustrations of dealing with an institutional system that does not practice patient-centered care despite its protestations. Her story of her mother's decline is told with love, but it offers important lessons that everyone involved in long-term care should learn.”
–Robert L. Kane, M.D., Minnesota Chair in Long-term Care and Aging University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Author of The Good Caregiver
“In Singing Solo: In Search of a Voice for Mom, JacLynn Herron has touched a nerve. Who has had a relative or friend living out their days in a nursing home and not wondered if they were receiving the attentive care they needed and deserved? Absorbed in the memoir's luminous prose, the reader is carried along on the journey as Herron's frustration and fear for her mother's wellbeing mount. A quiet call to action, this story has ramifications for adult readers of all ages and reaches beyond the usual Alzheimer's narrative into deeper issues about love and society's responsibility to provide quality, compassionate, end-of-life care to its most vulnerable members.”
“In Singing Solo: In Search of a Voice for Mom, JacLynn Herron has touched a nerve. Who has had a relative or friend living out their days in a nursing home and not wondered if they were receiving the attentive care they needed and deserved? Absorbed in the memoir's luminous prose, the reader is carried along on the journey as Herron's frustration and fear for her mother's wellbeing mount. A quiet call to action, this story has ramifications for adult readers of all ages and reaches beyond the usual Alzheimer's narrative into deeper issues about love and society's responsibility to provide quality, compassionate, end-of-life care to its most vulnerable members.”
–Nancy Raeburn, Author of Mykonos: A Memoir
“JacLynn Herron has given voice to the heart-rending frustration many families face in their struggle to obtain adequate long-term care for their loved ones. This book can help stimulate the discussion and debate that may lead to meaningful reform of the long-term care system in the United States. It is a must read for both professionals and families enmeshed in the current system, particularly families who are just beginning to explore long-term care alternatives for loved ones with dementia and need to understand the realities of the system they will have to traverse.”
–Rosemary K. Chapin, Ph.D., Professor, Director, Office of Aging And Long Term Care, KU School of Social Welfare
“JacLynn Herron has given voice to the heart-rending frustration many families face in their struggle to obtain adequate long-term care for their loved ones. This book can help stimulate the discussion and debate that may lead to meaningful reform of the long-term care system in the United States. It is a must read for both professionals and families enmeshed in the current system, particularly families who are just beginning to explore long-term care alternatives for loved ones with dementia and need to understand the realities of the system they will have to traverse.”
–Rosemary K. Chapin, Ph.D., Professor, Director, Office of Aging And Long Term Care, KU School of Social Welfare