Nell Casey

Contributing Writer

About

Nell Casey is the editor of the national best seller Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression and, more recently, An Uncertain Inheritance: Writers on Caring for Family. She has written for such publications as the New York Times , Slate , Salon , and Elle . She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and son.

Recently Published on Caring.com

1. Thursday April 30, 2009

   1. Talking With Tamara Jenkins

      Interview - In the popular indie film The Savages, Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman play Wendy and Jon Savage, middle-aged siblings who are faced with a dilemma: what to do when the father who deserted them as children needs their care as an old man... 1 Comment

   2. What I Wish I'd Known About My Father's Death: Filmmaker Tamara Jenkins

      Reflection - Tamara Jenkins wrote and directed The Savages, a film about two adult siblings who must forge a relationship with their estranged father when they discover that he's suffering from dementia -- and doesn't have much longer to live. In the film, the Savage siblings put their father in a nursing home and are with him when he dies...