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The Measure of Our Age
- Navigating Care, Safety, Money, and Meaning Later in Life
- Narrated by: Tracie Frank
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
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Summary
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.
As tens of millions of Americans are living longer lives, longevity is creating challenges that cut across race, class, and gender. Caregivers help older relatives for “free,” but with high costs to themselves in time, money, jobs, and health. Scammers target countless seniors. The institutions built to protect older people—like nursing homes and guardianship—too often harm them instead. And epidemics of isolation and loneliness make older people vulnerable to all sorts of harm.
In The Measure of Our Age, elder justice expert and MacArthur “genius” grant recipient M.T. Connolly investigates the systems we count on to protect us as we age. 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. But her investigation also reveals reasons for hope within everyone’s grasp.
Connolly’s strategies and action plans for navigating the many challenges of aging will appeal to a wide range of listeners—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. This book transforms how we think about aging.
Critic reviews
“A book that deserves wide attention and discussion among aging readers and those who care for them.”—Kirkus
“This is a brilliant, urgent, and much-needed book that will occupy a special place on my bookshelves. In a rapidly aging country, the clear-eyed wisdom alone of The Measure of Our Age would make it exceptional, but M.T. Connolly also happens to be the rare expert who can write movingly and beautifully. I learned from this book, I loved it, and I’m sure I’ll be reaching for it again and again.”—David Finkel, Pulitzer Prize-winner, and author of Thank You for Your Service
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- 17-09-23
a must read for anyone confronted with elder care
This is probably the best non- fiction book I have read or listened to for a long time, and it took me by surprise. This book touches in a very personal way many aspects of ageing and elder care, in particlar financial, judicial, psychological and philosophical aspects. I believe this is a "must read" for anyone who is confronted with the care of an elder person and/or is thinking about the ways to plan his/her later years. In partcular, this book is "a must read" for politicians who are being entrusted with the shaping and reforming of our future Health and Social Care.
Having lived in the US, England and Switzerland, I find the issues discussed based on the United States applicable for much for the Society of the Western World. It certainly has revolutionized my thinking and care about my ageing parents in Switzerland and my thinking about my own old age here in the UK.
I also liked the narrator, Tracy Frank. Initially, I was disappointed that MT Connolly is not reading her book herself, but as the narration went on, my perception of the narrators voice and intonation became one with the ones of the author; - maybe a touch less nervous, a bit calmer and more serene, thus intensifying the experience.
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