I found a mention of The Day to Day Life of Albert Hastings on the  Princeton Architectural Press website, which also published Taking Things Seriously. This book sounds like a lovely and poignant photographic study of an elderly man.  The Princeton Architectural has many interesting sounding books on their website. Here’s the book blurb from the PAP blog:

When Albert Hastings was eighty-five years old,
photographer KayLynn Deveney moved near his small flat in Wales.
KayLynn took notice of the small rituals and routines—gardening,
laundry, grocery shopping—that made up Bert’s life. A friendship slowly
developed as KayLynn began photographing parts of Bert’s day. The two
developed a simple yet effective method of storytelling—with KayLynn’s
images and Albert’s handwritten text—and the project evolved into The Day-to-Day Life of Albert Hastings,
a poignant and profound chronicle of aging, living alone, and the small
things that make up our daily lives. Albert Hastings passed away in
February, 2007. He was 91 years old.

An interview with KayLynn Deveney by Rosecrans Baldwin of The Morning News can be found here.

Here is whatThe Morning News had to say about the book:

“The Day-to-Day Life of Albert Hastings
lives up to its title: the comings and goings of a man in Wales who one
day met a young photographer living in the neighborhood. It’s a
marvelous book: KayLynn Deveney’s pictures draw out moments of repose
and oddness from the humdrum, and Hastings’s own captions subvert the
normal mode of playing subject, creating a much more personal take on a
(photographed) life.”