Someone Has to Be Around to Put Out the Lights

JAMA. 2024 Aug 13;332(6):457. doi: 10.1001/jama.2024.10502.
No abstract available

Plain language summary

In this narrative medicine essay, a retired psychiatrist emulates his father who in his sunset years helped many of his friends, family members, and loved ones navigate end-of-life illnesses and death.

Publication types

  • Personal Narrative

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Attitude to Death
  • Cognitive Dysfunction
  • Helping Behavior*
  • Humans
  • Independent Living