“I had the experience of having my grandmother in a nursing home at the end of her life, and had dementia set in with my father. He was in a nursing home with dementia at the end of his life, but it happened for me personally 10 years ago. My father was much older than my mother, so I experienced it as a pretty young person. People's parents die at various ages, but my father died of mortality. He died of being an old person. Illness and stuff happened, but essentially, he was old and he was going to die.” HomeAgeMotherFatherParentIllnessVariousGrandmotherMortalityMy GrandmotherNursingDementiaFather DiedMy Father Died Author:Tamara Jenkins
“In terms of my peer group, nobody's parents were dying of old age. There was no dialogue to have among friends. I had that experience, and then 10 years later, I started thinking about writing about it. It's obviously an indelible thing when that happens, and I wasn't looking for material at the time or anything; it just started becoming relevant to me.” ThinkingWritingAgeParentTermDyingDialogueOld AgeRelevant Author:Tamara Jenkins