How to Age Gracefully: Essays About the Art of Living

For readers curious about life in assisted living facilities comes a collection of essays that break stereotypes and distill vital lessons from people in later life.

A thoughtful and poignant meditation on aging and mortality, How to Age Gracefully tells the story of author Barbara Scoblic’s life inside an assisted living facility through essays and conversations.

When she entered an assisted living facility in Bethesda, Maryland, at age eighty-three, journalist and memoirist Scoblic wasn’t...