An expert on elder justice maps the challenges of aging, how things go wrong, and presents powerful tools we can use to forge better long lives for ourselves, our families, and our communities.
This book transforms how we think about aging..
Connolly\'s strategies and action plans for Navigating the many challenges of aging will appeal to a wide range of readers--adult children caring for aging parents; policymakers trying to do the right thing; and, should we be so lucky as to live to old age, all of us.
But her investigation also reveals reasons for hope within everyone\'s grasp.
Weaving first-person accounts, her own experience, and shocking investigative reporting, she exposes a reality that has long been hidden and sometimes actively covered up.
Connolly investigates the systems we count on to protect us as we age.
In The Measure of Our Age, elder justice expert and MacArthur genius grant recipient, M.
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And epidemics of isolation and loneliness make older people vulnerable to all sorts of harm.
The institutions built to protect older people--like nursing homes and guardianship--too often harm them instead.
Scammers target countless seniors.
Caregivers help older relatives for free, but with high costs to themselves in time, money, jobs, and health.
As tens of millions of Americans are living longer lives, longevity is creating challenges that cut across race, class, and gender.
An expert on elder justice maps the challenges of aging, how things go wrong, and presents powerful tools we can use to forge better long lives for ourselves, our families, and our communities
