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American eldercide : how it happened, how to prevent it /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gullette, Margaret Morganroth (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2024]
Subjects:
Older people > Institutional care > United States.
Discrimination in medical care > United States.
Age discrimination > United States.
Older people > Health and hygiene > United States.
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
Aging > Social aspects > United States.
Ageism.
COVID-19.
Aged.
United States.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : those we lost
  • "Sweeping up the heart, the morning after death"
  • Instead ... the first months of 2020
  • How Americans learned to accept that "the old" would die
  • A chasm opens : vital youth vs. moribund age
  • Consequences
  • On futility and "miracles"
  • The before time
  • The guardians of later life
  • In search of the missing voices
  • The COVID monument we need
  • Epilogue : reckonings.