American Eldercide: How It Happened, How to Prevent It

by Margaret Morganroth Gullette

A bracing spotlight on the avoidable causes of the COVID-19 Eldercide in the United States.

Twenty percent of the Americans who have died of COVID since 2020 have been older and disabled adults residing in nursing homes--even though they make up fewer than one percent of the US population. Something about this catastrophic loss of life in government-monitored facilities has never added up.

Until now. In American Eldercide,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226827763
• ISBN13: 9780226827766
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.4"