Older adults refusing help may need choices, not arguments
My phone lit up in the dormitory: "Can you come back after camp? Mom needs you to help persuade Grandma." I was at a summer program in Seattle. I booked the earliest flight I could, already marshaling arguments in my…
My phone lit up in the dormitory: “Can you come back after camp? Mom needs you to help persuade Grandma.”
I was at a summer program in Seattle. I booked the earliest flight I could, already marshaling arguments in my head: statistics on cognitive decline, studies about social engagement, the kind of evidence-based reasoning I had absorbed from years of watching people around me in Silicon Valley try to optimize everything, …
Older adults refusing help may need choices, not arguments
