Jane Gross

A Bittersweet Season: Caring for Our Aging Parents--and Ourselves (2011)

This is a well-written, moving, and useful book. It's also grim. One memorable quote, reportedly spoken by the author's mother, goes something like this: "Your reward for living to old age is that you rot to death." That is, die slowly, with a gradual and humiliating loss of function. The author,...