Mitchell Consky - Home Safe : A Memoir of End-of-Life Care During Covi

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The item is a book Paperback
The Author Name is Mitchell Consky
The Title is Home Safe : A Memoir of End-of-Life Care During Covid-19

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Content Language - English
Category - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical (incl. Patients)
SELF-HE/ Death, Grief, Bereavement
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying


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During a pandemic lockdown full of pyjama dance parties, life talks, and final goodbyes, a family helps a father die with dignity. In April 2020, journalist Mitchell Consky received bad news: his father was diagnosed with a rare and terminal cancer, with less than two months to live. Suddenly, he and his extended family - many of them healthcare workers - were tasked with reconciling the social distancing required by the Covid-19 pandemic with a family-based approach to end-of-life care. The result was a home hospice during the first lockdown. Suspended within the chaos of medication and treatments were dance parties, episodes of Tiger King, and his father's many deadpan jokes. Leaning into his journalistic intuitions, Mitchell interviewed his father daily, making audio recordings of final talks, emotional goodbyes, and the unexpected laughter that filled his father's final days. Serving as a catalyst for fatherly affection, these interviews became an opportunity for emotional confession during the slowed-down time of a shuttered world, and reflect how far a family went in making a dying loved one feel safe at home.

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