Life Stages In Caro Spencer's As You Are Now

In as we are now, an old woman, Caro Spencer, seven-six years old retired school teacher and never married. Her brother, John and his young wife decide put Caro into a rural nursing facility, Twin Elms which is located in New Hampshire. Because Caro is unable to live on her own, and her brother can no longer be able to take care of Caro after her operation of heart disease, since she is just too frail. Twin Elms is described as “a concentration camp for the old, a place where people dump their parents or relatives exactly as though it were an ash can” by Caro. The administrator and head nurse treat her rudely, like a prisoner, so she can not able to be herself. Every thing important to her has been taken away from her, for example music, and …show more content…
This sentence refers to she is at the new stage of her life. And this is how I apply the life stages framework to the book “As You Are Now”, Caro shows us a complete circle of the five stages of soul. She moves to a new “home”, she experiences different emotions, good and bad; joy and anger; hope and despair. Caro tries to find a way out. And yet, she compromises, but nothing changes. Then she fights back, but she fails. Eventually, she has to achieve her breakthrough in an extreme way, which is burn down the house and die along with the residents, to win a terrible victory. And she returns as her …show more content…
My answer for this question is facilities should take the responsibility to take care elders. The main reason I said that is because we can better regulate facilities than home care. First of all, there are laws and protocols that facilities have to follow. And, anyone can report abuse or underserve to ombudsman. Anyhow, the true despite the popular impression of that home care provides better service than nursing facility. Because we trust our family members more than caregivers. But the true is tons of abuses are happening while older people are taken care at home by their family members, but most abuses are yet to be exposed. There are two major causes are: 1) No one can discover these abuses, but only perpetrators and the victims. 2) Since the perpetrators are related to the victims who are the older people, older people are always more willing to from harms. In result, older people will decide let things pass without saying anything. Furthermore, in facilities, older people can enjoy the more professional services that home care can never compare with. Hence, I recommend that older people stay at regulated facilities for old