Aging Out

Aging Out Lucy Schiller

Reception

Mostly positive. 3 of 5 critics were positive or better.

Rave 1 · Positive 2 · Mixed 2 · Pan 0

“While Aging Out is not a guide or a treatise on the practicalities of aging, Schiller’s raw reportage on individual lives, including her own, represents what aging and being aged…”

Booklist · Jeff Connelly · Positive

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“The personal material designed to serve as both engine and binding agent creates more of a drag on a story that combines reporting on the long-term care industry and companion…”

The New York Times Book Review · Michelle Orange · Mixed
“This sensitive, introspective book honestly examines aging in the U.S.”

Library Journal · Caren Nichter · Positive

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Los Angeles Times · 20 July 2026

Medicare sucks. Caregiving is hard. Too bad the pain of aging feels like old news in new memoir

Inspired by caring for one grandmother, and mourning another, Lucy Schiller’s ‘Aging Out’ wanders through America’s eldercare issues, tracing a map of isolation.

By Julia M. Klein

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The New York Times · 13 July 2026 · Mixed

‘Aging Out,’ by Lucy Schiller

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