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Jane Gross was a reporter for Sports Illustrated and Newsday before joining The New York Times in 1978. Her twenty-nine-year tenure there included national assignments as well as coverage of aging. In 2008, she launched a blog for the Times called The New Old Age, to which she still contributes. She has taught journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Columbia University, and was the recipient of a John S. Knight Fellowship. She lives in Westchester County, New York.
Author's Note | p. xiii |
Prologue Finding Our Better Selves | p. 3 |
The Early Heroic Rush | p. 19 |
The Myth of Assisted Living | p. 41 |
The Vestiges of Family Medicine | p. 66 |
A Job for Professionals | p. 91 |
The Best Doctors Money Can Buy | p. 116 |
September Eleventh | p. 138 |
September Twelfth | p. 160 |
The Biology, Sociology, and Psychology of Aging | p. 182 |
A Nursing Home Thanksgiving | p. 211 |
The Make-A-Wish Foundation | p. 232 |
Follow the Money | p. 252 |
Therapeutic Fibs | p. 275 |
Gruel Sorting | p. 300 |
As Complicated as a Rubik's Cube | p. 316 |
The Time for Talking | p. 337 |
N-O-W | p. 360 |
Dying Days | p. 378 |
Orphans | p. 393 |
Epilogue Lost and Found | p. 403 |
Resources Government Sites | |
General Information and Research | |
Housing, Care Management and Other Services | |
Caregiving | |
Legal and Financial | |
End of Life | |
Advocacy | |
Alzheimer's Disease | |
Other DiseasesAging in Place | |
Miscellaneous | p. 407 |
Acknowledgments | p. 417 |
Index | p. 421 |
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