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March 26, 2015March 25, 2015Elaine M. Eshbaugh, PhD

Dying in Dementialand

I pulled up at a nursing home in an impoverished part of Kansas City. It was 2006–before GPS was commonplace. I had printed out Mapquest directions to find this place. It didn’t help that it was raining, almost 11 pm, and that the nursing home was tucked behind an authentic hole-in-the-wall Mexican restaurant and one of […]

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March 4, 2015March 3, 2015Elaine M. Eshbaugh, PhD

Til Death Do Us Part in Dementialand

She had taken off her wedding ring long ago because it was too painful to look down at her hand, see the ring, and remember that she had a husband who didn’t know who she was. But when she said she loved him as much as ever, I believed her.

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January 23, 2015January 24, 2015Elaine M. Eshbaugh, PhD

How I Got to Dementialand

I grew up in a nursing home. My mom was a nursing home activity director, and I spent my time after school and on the weekends in the halls of Bethesda Care Center. I helped with Bingo, pushed people in their wheelchairs to the chapel for church, modeled my back-to-school clothes for a fashion show, […]

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