Fiction

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts) Mon Jan 1, 2018, 02:34 PM Jan 2018

Looking for books set in a nursing home or assisted living

Not a hand book or how to book.

Something along a biography,
or a good fiction about folks living in one.

I'm currently reading "Breaking Out of Bedlam" and am enjoying it very much.

Would appreciate all suggestions.

Thanks

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Looking for books set in a nursing home or assisted living (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Jan 2018 OP

John Grisham has a good short story set in a nursing home redstateblues Jan 2018 #1

Ford County: Stories ? left-of-center2012 Jan 2018 #2

Oldie but goodie... 2naSalit Jan 2018 #3

Great movie set in a mental hospital. left-of-center2012 Jan 2018 #4

Mysteries getting old in mke Jan 2018 #5

Thanks. left-of-center2012 Jan 2018 #6

Green Mile getting old in mke Jan 2018 #7

Corinne Holt Sawyer wrote a series of mysteries about two women in an raccoon Jan 2018 #11

"Water for Elephants." Wonderful book. bif Jan 2018 #8

"The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 1/4 years old" PoindexterOglethorpe Jan 2018 #9

Thanks. Looks good left-of-center2012 Jan 2018 #10

I read this one several years ago and thought it was funny. japple Jan 2018 #12

Thanks left-of-center2012 Jan 2018 #13

redstateblues

(10,565 posts)

1. John Grisham has a good short story set in a nursing home

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Mon Jan 1, 2018, 03:02 PM

Jan 2018

Quiet Haven

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)

2. Ford County: Stories ?

Reply to redstateblues (Reply #1)

Mon Jan 1, 2018, 03:05 PM

Jan 2018

https://www.amazon.com/Ford-County-Stories-John-Grisham/dp/0440246210

2naSalit

(93,485 posts)

3. Oldie but goodie...

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Mon Jan 1, 2018, 03:32 PM

Jan 2018

"One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" Ken Kesey.

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)

4. Great movie set in a mental hospital.

Reply to 2naSalit (Reply #3)

Mon Jan 1, 2018, 03:37 PM

Jan 2018

I'm looking more for a setting with senior citizens coping with life in a nursing home or assisted living facility,
either as a biography or maybe mystery novel.

getting old in mke

(813 posts)

5. Mysteries

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Wed Jan 3, 2018, 04:41 PM

Jan 2018

There was an anthology of mystery stories named something like One Foot in the Grave, but I can't find reference to it online any more, and I've resold most of our hard-copy fiction, hopefully prepping for the retirement move in a year or so.

I did find reference to Geezer-Lit: https://www.goodreads.com/series/63424-paul-jacobson-geezer-lit-mystery

And of course, it's one of the story lines in Stephen King's The Green Mile, too.

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)

6. Thanks.

Reply to getting old in mke (Reply #5)

Wed Jan 3, 2018, 06:12 PM

Jan 2018

I’ve bookmarked the Geezer info :
https://www.goodreads.com/series/63424-paul-jacobson-geezer-lit-mystery

Isn’t “The Green Mile” more about a prison, rather than a nursing home?

I found the author Jeaniene Frost when I googled “One Foot in the Grave”,
but her stories seem to be about vampires ~
or linked to a BBC TV show series.

getting old in mke

(813 posts)

7. Green Mile

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Reply #6)

Wed Jan 3, 2018, 07:56 PM

Jan 2018

Is primarily a prison story. The framing story, though, is the old man remembering back, and dealing with an abusive attendant.

raccoon

(31,515 posts)

11. Corinne Holt Sawyer wrote a series of mysteries about two women in an

Reply to getting old in mke (Reply #5)

Mon Jan 15, 2018, 09:58 AM

Jan 2018

assisted living facility, Camden-sur-Mer.

They were written a few years back--1980s and 1990s--so they may be hard to find. You can probably get them on interlibrary loan if you can't find them.

bif

(24,255 posts)

8. "Water for Elephants." Wonderful book.

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Fri Jan 5, 2018, 01:52 PM

Jan 2018

PoindexterOglethorpe

(26,845 posts)

9. "The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 1/4 years old"

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Mon Jan 8, 2018, 10:01 PM

Jan 2018

Hendryk lives in a nursing home, and an independent living unit is attached. He's in Amsterdam, isn't too crazy about old people, but finds ways to make his life good.

It's one of the best books I've ever read.