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...... On the elderly in America, Lillian B. Rubin (2007), in her book 60 and Up, puts it into perspective this way:
It has become the baby boom generations latest, and in some ways most agonizing life crisis: what to do when the parents who took care of you can no longer take care of themselves, Rubin quotes a writer from Time, Cathy Booth. Rubin cites Booth further, quoting her as describing the plight of American elderly as, descended into elder-care hell, when my mother, then sixty-nine, was found to have Lou Gherigs disease (Rubin, p. 111).
To describe elder care today, Rubin has chosen Booth as a summation of the plight of the elderly. She, however, has chosen, too, a person who expresses a conscience in the plight of her loved one. Perhaps even felt helpless to make choices for her mother other than those that equated to elder care hell. There are many elderly who are surrendered in the twilight years leading to final hours of life who are physically and emotionally abandoned from the love of their family. Something has gone very differently in the family as Americans have evolved to the present; something very disturbing that

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