A well-written and necessary guide for anyone dealing with the issues of aging.
Miller offers a guide for millennials becoming caregivers for the elderly.
The author draws on her experience as a Certified Senior Advisor®, Certified Aging-in-Place Specialist (CAPS)®, and real estate associate broker in these pages to help millennial readers navigate the many options and issues that come with becoming a caregiver for an elder. The author discusses the pros and cons of a wide range of living options, including the more commonly known active adult and continuing care communities, as well as lesser-known options like Accessory Dwelling Units and RV living, among others. Miller concisely explains reverse mortgages and strategies for selling a home. She also provides helpful lists regarding criteria for aging in place, evaluating assisted living communities and potential trust and estate attorneys, and items needed for probate. Tips for effective decluttering are supplemented with easy-to-follow flow charts. Throughout the book, the most important material is indicated by a boldfaced comment: “Do This Before It’s Too Late.” References to additional resources go beyond the government and AARP to include the Genworth Cost of Care Study and the National End-of-Life Doula Alliance. Miller acknowledges the financial and emotional challenges of caregiving, including difficult conversation, escalating stress, and grief and mourning, always stressing honesty, empathy and compassion. “It can be rewarding but requires your time and sacrifice. Much of the sacrifice is financial and it will be important for you to take care of yourself emotionally and financially,” she cautions. Behind-the-scenes anecdotes of her experiences interspersed throughout the book provide helpful illustrations of the unpredictable roadblocks that can arise at any point in this journey. Although the guide is aimed at caregivers, the author’s relatable prose and sensible approach to this difficult subject will prove helpful to anyone who wants to put their affairs in order.
A well-written and necessary guide for anyone dealing with the issues of aging.Pub Date: June 19, 2024
ISBN: 9798218363499
Page Count: 176
Publisher: Self
Review Posted Online: March 11, 2025
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 2025
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
The lessons to draw are obvious: Smoke more dope, eat less meat. Like-minded readers will dig it.
The chef, rapper, and TV host serves up a blustery memoir with lashings of self-help.
“I’ve always had a sick confidence,” writes Bronson, ne Ariyan Arslani. The confidence, he adds, comes from numerous sources: being a New Yorker, and more specifically a New Yorker from Queens; being “short and fucking husky” and still game for a standoff on the basketball court; having strength, stamina, and seemingly no fear. All these things serve him well in the rough-and-tumble youth he describes, all stickball and steroids. Yet another confidence-builder: In the big city, you’ve got to sink or swim. “No one is just accepted—you have to fucking show that you’re able to roll,” he writes. In a narrative steeped in language that would make Lenny Bruce blush, Bronson recounts his sentimental education, schooled by immigrant Italian and Albanian family members and the mean streets, building habits good and bad. The virtue of those habits will depend on your take on modern mores. Bronson writes, for example, of “getting my dick pierced” down in the West Village, then grabbing a pizza and smoking weed. “I always smoke weed freely, always have and always will,” he writes. “I’ll just light a blunt anywhere.” Though he’s gone through the classic experiences of the latter-day stoner, flunking out and getting arrested numerous times, Bronson is a hard charger who’s not afraid to face nearly any challenge—especially, given his physique and genes, the necessity of losing weight: “If you’re husky, you’re always dieting in your mind,” he writes. Though vulgar and boastful, Bronson serves up a model that has plenty of good points, including his growing interest in nature, creativity, and the desire to “leave a legacy for everybody.”
The lessons to draw are obvious: Smoke more dope, eat less meat. Like-minded readers will dig it.Pub Date: April 20, 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4197-4478-5
Page Count: 184
Publisher: Abrams
Review Posted Online: May 5, 2021
Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 1, 2021
Skloot's meticulous, riveting account strikes a humanistic balance between sociological history, venerable portraiture and...
A dense, absorbing investigation into the medical community's exploitation of a dying woman and her family's struggle to salvage truth and dignity decades later.
In a well-paced, vibrant narrative, Popular Science contributor and Culture Dish blogger Skloot (Creative Writing/Univ. of Memphis) demonstrates that for every human cell put under a microscope, a complex life story is inexorably attached, to which doctors, researchers and laboratories have often been woefully insensitive and unaccountable. In 1951, Henrietta Lacks, an African-American mother of five, was diagnosed with what proved to be a fatal form of cervical cancer. At Johns Hopkins, the doctors harvested cells from her cervix without her permission and distributed them to labs around the globe, where they were multiplied and used for a diverse array of treatments. Known as HeLa cells, they became one of the world's most ubiquitous sources for medical research of everything from hormones, steroids and vitamins to gene mapping, in vitro fertilization, even the polio vaccine—all without the knowledge, must less consent, of the Lacks family. Skloot spent a decade interviewing every relative of Lacks she could find, excavating difficult memories and long-simmering outrage that had lay dormant since their loved one's sorrowful demise. Equal parts intimate biography and brutal clinical reportage, Skloot's graceful narrative adeptly navigates the wrenching Lack family recollections and the sobering, overarching realities of poverty and pre–civil-rights racism. The author's style is matched by a methodical scientific rigor and manifest expertise in the field.
Skloot's meticulous, riveting account strikes a humanistic balance between sociological history, venerable portraiture and Petri dish politics.Pub Date: Feb. 9, 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4000-5217-2
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Crown
Review Posted Online: Dec. 22, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 1, 2010
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