Jane Gross — The Far Shore of Aging

On Being with Krista Tippett

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4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2015

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

It is a story of our time — the new landscape of living longer, and of dying more slowly too. Jane Gross has explored this as a daughter and as a journalist, and as creator of the New York Times’ “New Old Age” blog. She has grounded advice and practical wisdom about caring for our loved ones and ourselves on the far shore of aging.

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0:00.0	It's a remarkable feature of our time.
0:03.5	We are changing the nature of aging.
0:06.3	Like all progress, this has an upside and a downside.
0:09.8	As Jane Gross' mother went through a long decline after her mid-80s, she put it this way
0:15.0	poignantly.
0:16.0	We live too long and die too slowly.
0:19.8	Partly as a result of accompanying her mother through these years, Jane Gross created
0:24.2	the new old age blog at the New York Times.
0:27.4	Her hard-won wisdom on experiencing the new old age of our parents and ourselves is
0:33.2	eloquent, practically useful and blunt.
0:37.5	If there's any advantage at all to them having this long, slow dying, there's a lot of
0:45.9	time to get things right that you didn't get right earlier.
0:50.4	I mean, you know, definitely changed the architecture of my family.
0:56.1	It definitely changed what the nature of my memories of my mother are and I imagine
1:03.1	will be forever.
1:05.0	Me and on the one hand, it makes me more scared and on the other hand, it makes me less
1:10.8	scared.
1:12.9	I'm Christopher Tippett and this is on being.
1:18.0	Jane Gross is the author of A Bittersweet Season, caring for our aging parents and ourselves.
1:24.2	She also appears in the new documentary, Caring for Mom and Dad, which premieres this
1:29.1	week on PBS.
1:30.7	I spoke with her in 2011.
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