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Senior citizens
Senior citizens news and analysis from The Nation
September 8, 2020
Prey without predators… The costs of long-term care…
August 11, 2020
If three out of four Americans want to spend their final years at home, why do so many of us end up in institutional care?
August 5, 2020
No generation has a monopoly on justice, or responsibility.
July 8, 2020
We talked to Rachel Kauder Nalebuff about the politics of care, mourning, and her new book, Stages: On Dying, Working, and Feeling .
May 13, 2019
When Americans age or need help with the basic tasks of living, they often have no one to turn to but their family members. A groundbreaking program in Washington will change that for residents of the state.
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March 29, 2019
It’s time to face this country’s looming retirement crisis.
July 19, 2018
A plan for paid family leave put forward by Marco Rubio and Ivanka Trump would steal from the elderly.
May 29, 2018
The criminal-justice system is failing to deal with our aging prison population in a humane way.
January 19, 2018
A New York State rule is standing in the way of home-care workers’ earning their rightful pay, and care recipients’ getting the attention they deserve.
September 29, 2017
An interview with Nomadland author Jessica Bruder on America’s new, precarious old age.
