{"product_id":"aging-out-an-exploration-of-caregiving-community-and-how-americans-grow-old","title":"Aging Out: An Exploration of Caregiving, Community, and How Americans Grow Old","description":"Part of the New York Times’ \"Nonfiction Everyone Will Be Reading This Summer\"\nOne of LA Times' \"10 Books to Read in July\"\nAn Amazon Editors’ \"Best Nonfiction of July\" pick\n\nA profoundly personal investigation into the current state of eldercare and what it means to grow old in America\n\n\"Schiller unpacks a complicated subject with curiosity and empathy...[A] deeply human portrayal of what it means to get older in a society unprepared to care for its most vulnerable.\"―Publishers Weekly\n\nUnlike 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.\n\nLike 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.\n\nFrom 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.\n\nCombining 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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1250344522\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1250344522.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Schiller, Lucy\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Pages are clean with no markings. May show minor signs of wear or cosmetic defects  marks, cuts, bends, or scuffs  on the cover, spine, pages, or dust jacket. May have remainder marks on edges.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41603656089658,"sku":"DBV.1250344522.VG","price":18.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1250344522-0.jpg?v=1787197797","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/aging-out-an-exploration-of-caregiving-community-and-how-americans-grow-old","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}