Ten years ago, Barbara Ehrenreich read an article in Scientific American that shook her to the core. “Old age isn’t a battle,” she says, quoting Philip Roth, “old age is a massacre.” In the past few years, she has given up on screenings and scans. The diseases of old age used to be seen not just as inevitable but as kindly, even altruistic. It’s a pessimistic scenario but at the end of the book Ehrenreich offers a glimmer of light. Like most polemicists, Ehrenreich is more persuasive when on the attack than when it comes to offering solutions.

Source: The Guardian April 12, 2018 06:22 UTC