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 care services for the old ... Our sense of her predicament doesn’t deepen or evolve, and its abstractions often sit in awkward juxtaposition with the various urgencies and injustices Schiller encounters in her reporting.
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 looks like today. Readers will experience equal parts alarm and catharsis.
