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The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America Paperback – June 7, 2016

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In The Age of Dignity, thought leader and activist Ai-jen Poo offers a wake-up call about the demographic reality that will affect us all. "We have more senior citizens in America today than we've had at any time in our history," Poo writes, pointing out that more than 14 percent of our population is now over sixty-five; by 2030 that ratio will be one in five. In fact, our fastest-growing demographic is the eighty -five-plus age group―over 5 million people now, a number that is expected to more than double in the next twenty years. This change presents us with a new challenge: how we care for and support quality of life for the unprecedented numbers of older Americans who will need it.

Despite these daunting numbers, Poo has written a profoundly hopeful book, giving us a glimpse into the stories and often hidden experiences of the people―family caregivers, older people, and home care workers―whose lives will be directly shaped and reshaped in this moment of demographic change. The Age of Dignity outlines a road map for how we can become a more caring nation, providing solutions for fixing our fraying safety net while also increasing opportunities for women, immigrants, and the unemployed in our workforce. As Poo has said, "Care is the strategy and the solution toward a better future for all of us."

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June 7, 2016
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1620972018
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"A big-hearted book [that] seeks to transform our dismal view of aging and caregiving."
―Ms. Magazine

"This book is a starter for conversations that are long overdue. If you are someone's child, a spouse, or concerned about yourself someday, The Age of Dignity will give you food for thought."
―The Philadelphia Tribune

"Poo's positive and inclusive approach is particularly appealing…[O]ffers a critical and complementary perspective on this important issue."
―The New York Times

"[P]rovides an accessible and heartfelt look at a major problem looming for the United States―how we will care for baby boomer generation as it rapidly ages."
―Colorlines

"This book fills a crucial gap in existing literature: it is now the foremost writing that demonstrates the interconnectedness of elder care issues with the rights of women, immigrants, and all workers."
―Feministing

"This can-do book by an activist seeking to rouse the public into action has a lot to say to anyone who plans on getting old."
―Kirkus Reviews

“Thoughtful, moving, and relatable, with numerous personal and professional anecdotes, Poo delivers a concise discussion recommended for readers interested in the social sciences or elder care.”
―Library Journal

"A strong argument for a cultural and governmental shift toward valuing older citizens and providing them with opportunities for rich, full lives."
―Publishers Weekly

"People getting older is not a crisis, it's a blessing. That is the message of The Age of Dignity, an urgent and irresistible book by Ai-jen Poo. To benefit from this blessing of experience that comes with longer life expectancy, we'll need more well-paid and expert home care workers. In just the next four years, that demand will increase by more than 90 percent. This gives you some idea why every American should read this slender book. With luck, it will be the future for all of us."
―Gloria Steinem

About the Author

Ai-jen Poo is the director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and a co-director of the Caring Across Generations campaign. Her accolades include the Ms. Foundation Woman of Vision Award, Newsweek's 150 Fearless Women list, and Time's list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. She lives in New York.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ The New Press; Reprint edition (June 7, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1620972018
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1620972014
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.5 x 8 inches

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Best book ever!

Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2022

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She covers everything you need to know about ageing in the US. She explains how home care must work - straing with paying home care workers a liveable wage. it's that simple. if we don't fix this problem all our elderly are in for a rough ride.

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Suzanne Belisle

Read it because you "care"

Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2015

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This is a book loaded with facts, information and projections for the caregiver needs of the elder boom generation that has been talked about for more than thirty years. In the "Age of Dignity" Ai-Jen Poo offers a fresh perspective on the challenges this demographic reality presents across generations in both directions.

Ai-Jen states her book is "about problems finding solutions." The challenge is to open our eyes to effect a course correction in our care infrastructure that currently ignores valuable contributions of informal caregivers and home care workers. Care involves the need to plan for uncertainty 24/7 and recognizing that it takes a team. While making the case for all the quantitative issues care involves, Ai-Jen focuses on our need to understand the value of care. She zooms in on the qualitative experience of what comprises the best care ---kindness. Ai-Jen encourages us to start a conversation about care that starts with what involves the best care and investing energy on supporting the workforce development issues that touch us all.

This is an engaging book for anyone who "cares." I have a bookcase of books on caregiving and have worked in the field for over 30 years, rather than alarm and rehash the care crisis we are facing, Ai-Jen suggests a reset that is refreshing rather than looking how to fix all the things that are wrong with caregiving, she starts with developing what makes sense and works and finding a way to support and build from that perspective.

Suzanne Belisle, PhD, ACSW, Home Aides of Rockland, Board of Directors.

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Damian Cain

It is to Ai-jen Poo’s great credit that she came to the problem of caring ...

Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2015

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I’m a homecare RN.

The Age of Dignity is a clarion call, pointing not just to the impending crisis of Aging America, but to the heroines and heroes who are already guiding the most vulnerable among us to safety and dignity.

It is to Ai-jen Poo’s great credit that she came to the problem of caring for elderly Americans 14 years ago, before it had even occurred to most of us that the Baby Boomers were going to grow old en masse. That long-term familiarity is clearly evidenced in the wide scope of strategies she explores. Rather than pointing to a panacea, Ms. Poo knows that only a mosaic of creative and dedicated solutions will offer success in tackling what will surely be the greatest social policy challenge of the first half of this century.

And even more inspiring, Ms. Poo understands that this struggle will ultimately be won not by policy, but by the women who actually devote their hearts and lives to caring, day after day, for our elderly and frail. This book, then, is not ultimately Ms. Poo’s story: it is the story of the skilled and loving women she brings so vividly to life from the pages of The Age of Dignity.

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Martha Stettinius

An easy and hopeful read

Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2018

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Well-written, well-researched and a powerful argument for the need for a federal program to support care at home for all generations, in particular for the coming "age wave" of aging boomers. With those age 65 and older reaching 16% of our population by the year 2020, we will need new public systems to support care, similar to those in countries such as Germany and Japan, where their elder populations reached 16% twenty years ahead of us in the U.S. "The Age of Dignity" is also unusual in its focus on the importance of supporting the rights and higher wages of home care workers, and in its support of generous policies for immigration, as our skyrocketing need for at-home care will require both. An easy and hopeful read.
--Author, "Inside the Dementia Epidemic: A Daughter's Memoir"

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Ma non troppo

As someone who has been a caregiver for a loved one with dementia for going on 12 years

Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2015

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As someone who has been a caregiver for a loved one with dementia for going on 12 years, i think i need to put in a couple of cents about the underlying sentiments in the Age of Dignity-- this is a cash cow and many folk are planning ahead how to make a mint off the boomers' demise. The books you need to navigate this boomer boom without becoming an exploiter or exploited are:
NOT The Age of Dignity

1) RESILIENCE AND AGING BY HELEN LAVRETSKY MD

2)TAKE THAT NURSING HOME AND SHOVE IT by Susan B. Geffen

3) DEMENTIA mind meaning and the person by Hughes, Louw & Sabat

3)The Person Centered Way by James H Collins

4) Circles of Care by Ann Cason

5) The Ethics of Caring by Kylea Taylor

6) Atul Gawande's Being Mortal ( I love a physician who will drink Ganges water, I mean it. Deep bow, Dr Gawande)

and if you can get your hands on a copy of Roshi Joan Halifax, PhD's Being With Dying Compassionate End Of Life Care Training Guide: get that.

I think Ai Jen Po's book dangerously sentimentalizes the employees who may or may not be low paid workers in an under appreciated field, but they tend to be, in my experience, *very* often sweet appearing deranged and possibly sadistic purveyors of "malignant social psychology" so one needs to be wary-- and the agencies do not care either. They will send thieves and sociopaths into your home who are licensed and bonded to harm your loved one. So watch it. I now have a skeleton crew whom my parent and I adore, but it has taken YEARS of watchfulness and planning.

Good luck everyone. As Pogo says, we have met the enemy and he is us!

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Mary G. Lundy

An Important Topic

Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2015

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It's kind of a hard slog, but so important. Having cared for my own mother and my mother-in-law as they aged (to 93 years old respectively) this is a subject that is important to me -- at age 78, with my husband 81. We all have much to learn about caring for or overseeing the care of an aging loved one. I haven't gotten too far into the book; but I hope she also deals with adult financial abuse, with which I am very familiar. I am currently preparing to testify at the criminal trial of a man who ripped off a close friend after she trusted him to be her power of attorney.

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