Preserving Your Autonomy in the Face of Good Audiological Advice: A Tribute To My Aged Mother
During my over 40-year tenure as a psychologist, I have worked with many families with aged parents dealing with hearing loss. But this time, the parent is my mother. One day, after we exchanged our greetings in the nursing home, my mother went blank, looked away, and uttered: “I don’t know who I am anymore. I’m not a wife like I was, I’m not a secretary like I was, and I have no purpose. Who am I? What am I supposed to do? How did I even get here?”