Aging Out: An Exploration of Caregiving, Community, and How Americans Grow Old - Couverture rigide

Schiller, Lucy

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1250344522 ISBN 13 : 9781250344526

Editeur : Flatiron Books, 2026

Synopsis

A deeply personal investigation into the current state of eldercare and what it means to grow old in America

Unlike many other cultures, our collective stance toward older people in the United States has long been one of casual avoidance and neglect. This attitude became brutally clear during the height of the COVID pandemic, when too many people saw elderly deaths not as tragedies but as foregone conclusions.

Like many of us, Lucy Schiller experienced this callousness firsthand when her grandmother passed away during the pandemic. In the wake of this trauma, propelled by equal parts grief and curiosity about her own fear of aging, Schiller embarked on an investigative journey to understand why the prospect of aging is so frightening and how being "old" in America intersects with class, race, disability, and public policy.

From profit-driven networks of care facilities to systemic failures in economic support, the future of older Americans looks increasingly uncertain. In Aging Out, Schiller reports this crisis, sharing the human toll of inadequate housing, health care, and community, while simultaneously excavating her own complicated relationship with aging.

Combining the incisive reporting of Evicted with the beautifully rendered introspection of The Empathy Exams, Aging Out is an intimate and unflinching exploration of what it means to age in this country and why Americans--including Schiller herself--are so terrified of getting old.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Lucy Schiller is a nonfiction writer. Her work has been published at the Columbia Journalism Review, The New Yorker, The Iowa Review, West Branch, Speculative Nonfiction, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. She was the Olive B. O'Connor Fellow in Nonfiction at Colgate University (2020-2021) and the Provost's Visiting Writer in Nonfiction at the University of Iowa (2018-2019). She received her MFA from the University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Flatiron Books
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1250344522
• ISBN 13: 9781250344526
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
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