Katharine Hepburn: Markings and Remembrances

In the Journal's ongoing series, “Images in Aging,”, I am pleased to remember and to celebrate the life and work of Katharine Hepburn. My favorite of her four Oscar-winning films, On Golden Pond (1981), is a deeply moving, at times funny, and always compassionate portrayal of the journey into dementia taken by her husband, play ed by Henry Fonda, in the role of a Penn professor of engineering who is caught up in denial and, finally, terrified by losing his way home. Hepburn conveys the grief and love felt by a compassionate care giver, and the inestimable importance of having a companion in this long journey into night.
Source: The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry - Category: Geriatrics Authors: Tags: Images in Aging Source Type: research