{"id":1160,"date":"2017-09-06T07:35:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T11:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silvercentury.org\/2017\/09\/the-end-game\/"},"modified":"2018-07-02T07:53:43","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T11:53:43","slug":"the-end-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2017\/09\/the-end-game\/","title":{"rendered":"The End Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span class=\"byline\">By&nbsp;<span class=\"\">Corey M. Abramson<\/span>&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;<em>Harvard University Press, 2015<\/em>&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are all growing older, but we are not all aging on equal terms, says University of Arizona sociologist Corey M. Abramson in&nbsp;<em>The End Game<\/em>. With deeply detailed interviews of a diverse cast of adults aging in California\u2019s Bay Area, Abramson gives readers a very personal view of how disparate education and economics have created what he calls an alarming \u201cgeriatric inequality\u201d in America. The interviewees\u2019 real-world experiences illustrate that people aging in middle-class neighborhoods have better housing, transportation, access to health care, social support\u2014even groceries\u2014than those in poorer communities, and that this imbalance has a direct impact on whether a person thrives or simply survives in the later years. Abramson challenges society to consider older adults as individuals rather than as a one-size-fits-all block, because, he says, what affects our elders today eventually affects us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are all growing older, but we are not all aging on equal terms, says University of Arizona sociologist Corey M. Abramson.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2017\/09\/the-end-game\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The End Game<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insights-from-bold-thinkers"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"","source_text":"","source_url":""},"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4781,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions\/4781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}