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American Eldercide: How It Happened, How to Prevent It

Name: American Eldercide: How It Happened, How to Prevent It
Brand: University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226827766
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Contributors:

Margaret Morganroth Gullette

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

Family & Relationships, Social Science, Medical

Book Subcategory:

Eldercare, Gerontology, Public Health

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Release Date:

2024-10-22

ISBN 13:

9780226827766

Weight:

1.54 lbs

Size:

9.40 x 6.20 x 1.10 inches

Pages:

328

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A bracing spotlight on the avoidable causes of the COVID-19 Eldercide in the United States.

Twenty percent of the Americans who have died of COVID since 2020 have been older and disabled adults residing in nursing homes--even though they make up fewer than one percent of the US population. Something about this catastrophic loss of life in government-monitored facilities has never added up.

Until now. In American Eldercide, activist and scholar Margaret Morganroth Gullette investigates this tragic public health crisis with a passionate voice and razor-sharp attention to detail, showing us that nothing about it was inevitable. By unpacking the decisions that led to discrimination against nursing home residents, revealing how governments, doctors, and media reinforced ageist or ableist biases, and collecting the previously little-heard voices of the residents who survived, Gullette helps us understand the workings of what she persuasively calls an eldercide.

Gullette argues that it was our collective indifference, fueled by the heightened ageism of the COVID-19 era, that prematurely killed this vulnerable population. Compounding that deadly indifference is our own panic about aging and a social bias in favor of youth-based decisions about lifesaving care. The compassion this country failed to muster for the residents of our nursing facilities motivated Gullette to pen an act of remembrance, issuing a call for pro-aging changes in policy and culture that would improve long-term care for everyone.

About the Author
Margaret Morganroth Gullette is a cultural critic and anti-ageism pioneer whose prize-winning work is foundational in critical age studies. She is the author of several books, including Agewise, Aged by Culture, and Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People. Her writing has appeared in publications such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, Atlantic, Nation, and theBoston Globe. She is a resident scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis, and lives in Newton, Massachusetts.

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