American Eldercide: How It Happened, How to Prevent It by Gullette, Margaret Morganroth
American Eldercide: How It Happened, How to Prevent It by Gullette, Margaret Morganroth

American Eldercide: How It Happened, How to Prevent It

A bracing spotlight on the avoidable causes of the COVID-19 Eldercide in the United States. Twenty percent...
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Author: Margaret Morganroth Gullette
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American Eldercide: How It Happened, How to Prevent It by Gullette, Margaret Morganroth

American Eldercide: How It Happened, How to Prevent It

$60.69
American Eldercide: How It Happened, How to Prevent It by Gullette, Margaret Morganroth

American Eldercide: How It Happened, How to Prevent It

$60.69
Author: Margaret Morganroth Gullette
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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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.

Author: Margaret Morganroth Gullette
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 10/22/2024
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.54lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.20w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780226827766
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