Review
An everyone story: Finding our way back to compassion, hope and humanity
Australasian journal on ageing, Vol.44(2), e70027
06/2025
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Abstract
This is a book that stays with the reader long after the actual reading has finished. It details how a system that was meant to care for older people with mental health problems became dehumanised, and the impact that had, not only on residents and their families but also on staff. It also demonstrates the courage that was needed to turn that situation around.
When I began to read the book, my initial response was that there was too much about the author himself; however, by the end of the book, I realised that ‘who he was’—his life and learning—made possible the changes that followed.
The focus of ‘An Everyone Story’ is not only the people who lived at the Oakden Older Persons' Mental Health Service in Adelaide and their family members but also the staff who worked there and who were, to some extent, dehumanised by the conditions under which they had to work.
Details
- Title
- An everyone story: Finding our way back to compassion, hope and humanity
- Creators
- Colleen Cartwright - Southern Cross University
- Publication Details
- Australasian journal on ageing, Vol.44(2), e70027
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Number of pages
- 1
- Identifiers
- 991013292651802368
- Copyright
- © 2025 AJA Inc.
- Academic Unit
- Office of the Vice Chancellor
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Review