Topic: kindness

In Counting on Kindness: The Dilemmas of Dependency, author Wendy Lustbader takes a deep dive into the world of older adults who, through illness or disability, are dependent on others for survival. First published in 1991, Counting on Kindness is as relevant today as it was then—perhaps even more so considering the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic.

As Lustbader shares in the preface, “The chief consequence of dependency is that we are forced to count on the kindness of others.”

As independent as we may think we are, the past 16-plus months have helped many of us recognize how interdependent and dependent we are on the kindness of others. …

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