This book is a compilation of the reporter/author's blog for the New York Times detailing her experience in caring for her declining elderly mother. And she spares few unpleasant details. Informative and a little unsettling for anyone at this time in their life. The author is a bit unique in that she is unmarried and has no children, so she and her brother have to deal with every aspect of their mother's care between them, including the decision that their mother needed to be in a nursing home. To which their mother, cognitively intact but physically declining, agreed. The author gives some good advice (keep the elderly out of emergency rooms at all costs) and strikes a chord with her insights ("...the traffic jam of ambulances outside assisted living facilities everywhere and, in the parking lots, the daughters slumped, weeping, in their cars.") Well worth reading.
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