title: The Decision: A Creative Autoethnographic Account with Poetry.
abstract: This is the story of my decision to place my mother in a continuing-care facility. It is interwoven with the experiences of 32 residents of two continuing-care communities. Their stories are presented as a poem, short conversation, and dramatic monologue. The poem describes what it means to be healthy. The short conversation elucidates the decision-making process of a couple and the monologue of a widow or single individual in moving to one of these facilities.
authors.affiliation: a Institute for Writing and Rhetoric , Dartmouth College.
authors.forename: Darlene K
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-4579-6618
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Drummond
mesh_terms: D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D040561:Assisted Living Facilities; D003142:Communication; D003657:Decision Making; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011037:Poetry as Topic