Publisher's Synopsis
Having no option after an unexpected amputation due to uncontrolled diabetes, John P. Edens found himself in a nursing home that described itself to prospective clients as providing residents with an "incomparable care."
In The Incomparable Care Machine, John P. Edens provides a critical, cautionary review of the time spent trapped in a for-profit nursing home. He considers himself fortunate to have survived this rare, existential experience, where he had lost almost complete control over his existence but in return gained a revealing portrayal of what both life and death is like inside one of these flawed institutions. He is hoping to generate a loud public outcry calling for a long-overdue, in-depth investigation of these defective, out-of-control institutions, demanding they be overhauled, reformed, and forced to operate in a manner completely different than how he found it to be. He feels certain that future society will look back in horror on the shoddy practices of today's modern nursing homes and knows that the eventual need for helpful living assistance and quality health care may someday be one for all of us.
