This groundbreaking work reveals the wealth of opportunities and the loss of independence that have become the dueling signatures of old age. This project ventures into such diverse subjects as 80-year-olds getting married, geriatric wards in prisons, RV clubs for single seniors, grandparents parenting, and foster care for elders. It is a realistic, touching and balanced account of what it means to grow old in America today. The result of seven years of fieldwork by photographer Ed Kashi and writer Julie Winokur, Aging in America confronts our existing attitudes about growing old and demands that we look at our elders through fresh eyes.

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