Michele Russell

We have allowed essential care to become the responsibility of whoever is least willing to let the person in need go without it. That is not always a freely made sacrifice. Sometimes it is what happens when the alternatives are unacceptable.

Long-term caregiving can change how people relate to discomfort, presence, and difficult truths.

Some parts of life don’t translate into data. But they are not less real, they are often more complete than what systems can measure.