A different home. People, systems, and limits of support in Polish nursing homes – a meeting with Jędrzej Dudkiewicz

We cordially invite you to a meeting with Jędrzej Dudkiewicz about his book "Inny dom. Ludzie, system i granice wsparcia w polskich DPS-ach" (Another Home: People, the System, and the Limits of Support in Polish Social Welfare Homes), which will be hosted by Dagmara Adamiak. This is the first book of its kind about the social welfare system in Poland. This could be your future or that of your loved ones. Read it. Understand it. Don't look away. Polish society is aging faster than we want to admit. By 2060, people over 65 may constitute as much as 40% of the population. Many of them—of us—will not avoid long-term care. But what do we really know about the places where the most seriously ill, dependent, and forgotten end up? Social welfare homes are rarely the subject of public debate. We associate them with shortages, bad press, and dramatic stories that make their way into the media. But that is only part of the truth. Jędrzej Dudkiewicz talks to residents of social welfare homes, their loved ones, staff, management, and representatives of social organizations. He shows this world from the inside: with empathy and without simplifications. He analyzes a system that is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain in its current form and asks how long we will continue to pretend that it does not concern us. This book is not only about old age, but also about how we want to treat each other as a society.