Counting On Kindness

Download or read book Counting On Kindness written by Wendy Lustbader and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seattle mental health counselor Lustbader here compells attention to and sympathy for those who must rely on caregivers for their needs. Stories are related by patients themselves. From incapacitated men and women we learn of the humiliations caused by the loss of autonomy, of the frustrations at not being able to manage on one's own. Accounts from widely different sorts of patients and those who begrudgingly or willingly see to their care provide graphic lessons in sensitivity.