| International Standard Book Number |
9781772620610 (softcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
1772620610 (softcover)
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| Personal Name |
MacLeod, Susan (Susan J.), author.
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| Title Statement |
Dying for attention : a graphic memoir of nursing home care / Susan MacLeod.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Wolfville, Nova Scotia : Conundrum Press, 2021.
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| Physical Description |
184 pages : chiefly black and white illustrations ; 23 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"When Susan MacLeod accompanied her 90-year-old mother through a labyrinthine long-term care system, it was a nine-year journey navigating a government without a heart in a system without compassion. Her family, much like the system, erected walls rather than opening arms. She found herself involuntarily placed at the pivot point between her frail, elderly mother's need for love and companionship, the system's inability to deliver, and her brother's indifference. She had also spent three years as a government spokesperson enthusiastically defending the very system she now experienced as brutally cold. MacLeod's tone is defined by a gentle, self-effacing humour touched by exasperation for the absurdities and the newfound wisdom around expectations. Dying for Attention is the latest memoir in the graphic medicine field, shelved alongside My Begging Chart by Keiler Roberts and Tangles by Sarah Leavitt. MacLeod includes helpful tips for communicating with nursing homes, as well as background research, to provide a larger context for this under-discussed experience."-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
MacLeod, Susan (Susan J.) Comic books, strips, etc.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
MacLeod, Susan (Susan J.) Family Comic books, strips, etc.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Nursing homes Canada Comic books, strips, etc.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Nursing homes Administration Canada Comic books, strips, etc.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Nursing homes Admission Canada Comic books, strips, etc.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Graphic novels.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Autobiographical comics.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Medical comics.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Comic books, strips, etc.
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