Four months after our father’s death, Jasmine Mehta, the Trinidadian Indian woman who had been his primary paid caregiver for six years, had the following dream: Our father was sitting in his wheelchair in a beautiful white suit looking very gentlemanly. He told her that they were going on a trip; he had packed his […]
Emily Abel
Emily K. Abel is a professor of health services and women’s studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is author of Hearts of Wisdom: American Women Caring for Kin, 1850-1940 and Suffering in the Land of Sunshine: A Los Angeles Illness Narrative.