Ira Rosofsky Author of Nasty, Brutish, and Long: Adventures in Old Age and the World of Eldercare
 

Nasty, Brutish & Long Adventures in Eldercare by Ira Rosofsky
Avery/Penguin
ISBN: 1583333770

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A book for policy makers, caregivers, the halt and lame, upright and unencumbered: anyone who ever intends to grow old.
--Thomas Lynch, author of The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade

Accomplishes what few authors are capable of--taking an unnerving topic and turning it into a book so enthralling you won't want to put down. Indeed, it's a meditation worthy of Marcus Aurelius and Jerry Seinfeld.
--Andrew D. Blechman, author of Leisureville: Adventures in a World without Children

 

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Adventures in Old Age
at Psychology Today

 

 

Connecticut Book Award Finalist


Illustration © M.K. Perker

 

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of Nasty, Brutish, and Long

Nasty, Brutish, and Long: Adventures in Eldercare

 

A coming of old-age story

In nursing homes and assisted living facilities across America, millions of the Greatest Generation are living out their final days, but no matter how exciting or mundane their lives, they're now occupying a hospital-style room-a public space where you can't lock your door and strangers freely come and go. Life is a succession of pokes and prods, medications, TV, bingo, and, possibly, talking to Ira Rosofsky.

Nasty, Brutish, and Long is a candid, humane, and improbably humorous look at the world of eldercare. With a compassionate eye yet mordant wit, Rosofsky, a psychologist charged with providing mental health services to his elders, reveals a culture based not on empathy, but on regulations promulgated by coolly detached bureaucracies such as Medicare and Medicaid.

In this portrayal of what is increasingly becoming the last slice of life for many, Nasty, Brutish, and Long also presents a baby boomer’s poignant meditation on aging and mortality, a reflection on caregiving during his parents' final days, and an examination of the choices that we, as a society, have made about healthcare for the elderly who are no longer of sound mind or body.