MacLeod, Susan

Dying for attention : a graphic memoir of nursing home care / by Susan MacLeod. - First edition. - 184 pages : chiefly illustrations (black and white) ; 26 cm.

"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."--

ISBN: 9781772620610 1772620610

Subjects--Personal Names:
MacLeod, Susan--Comic books, strips, etc.
MacLeod, Susan--Family--Comic books, strips, etc.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Nursing homes--Canada--Comic books, strips, etc.
Nursing homes--Administration--Canada--Comic books, strips, etc.
Nursing homes--Admission--Canada--Comic books, strips, etc.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Autobiographical comic books, strips, etc.
Autobiographical comics.
Comics (Graphic works).
Medical comics.
Autobiographical comics.
Medical comics.

LC Class. No.: RA998.C2 / M33 2021

Dewey Class. No.: 362.16092