Can old racists change? Book tracks seven years in a South African nursing home

The people of the care home near the Kruger National Park lived through apartheid, and can teach lessons about what care is and can be

13 January 2025 - 04:30 By Casey Golomski

God’s Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life’s End is a beautifully written and intimate book (https://witspress.co.za/page/detail/God/?K=9781776149490) about the characters in an old age home in South Africa. To write it, anthropologist (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3oflaokAAAAJ&hl=en)Casey Golomski spent seven years travelling between South Africa and the US. Both countries are grappling with implementing universal healthcare, which, for older adults, is notoriously under-resourced...

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