Samuel Beckett's play Krapp's last tape provides valuable insights in to the isolation
experienced by many elderly patients and highlights the potential contribution of the …

Isolation is a common problem, particularly for older people. 1 Social isolation has been
associated with increased mortality and morbidity, contributing to the suffering of illness2-4 …

One of the most influential books in British medicine has been Richard Asher's Talking
Sense, in which an experienced, thoughtful clinician made original and provocative …

Abstract Irish playwright Samuel Beckett's spare, compact, and provocative play Rockaby
(1981) is a study in old age, isolation, and disengagement from life. In it, an elderly woman …

These words are meant to reassure me and help me to move on, whatever that implies, as
my husband enters long-term care. However, years later, I still hear them and they continue …

The experience of ageing and the resulting emotional difficulties of elderly patients have
only recently begun to be understood from a psychodynamic perspective. This paper draws …

The doctor tapped my ribs and eavesdropped on my heart, and frowned and then cancelled
his frown, and then—having already made up his mind about it—asked me how I was …

From Greek mythology and the Bible to modern critiques of the digital age, loneliness has
been portrayed as part of the human condition. Recognition of the significant adverse …

I am old enough to once have had the privilege of working with Prof. John Brocklehurst, one
of the founders of academic geriatric medicine. He was spending a sabbatical year in …

The last scene of all is not inevitably Shakespeare's second childishness and mere oblivion,
sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything; for the corollary of two demented people …