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Podcast: New Books in Anthropology
Episode: Stacy Torres, "At Home in the City: Growing Old in Urban America" (U California Press, 2025)
Description: To understand elders' experiences of aging in place, sociologist Stacy Torres spent five years with longtime New York City residents as they coped with health setbacks, depression, gentrification, financial struggles, the accumulated losses of neighbors, friends, and family, and other everyday challenges. The sensitive portrait Torres paints in At Home in the City: Growing Old in Urban America (University of California Press, 2025), moves us beyond stereotypes of older people as either rich and pampered or downtrodden and frail to capture the multilayered complexity of late life.These pages chronicle how a nondescript bakery in Manhattan served as a...