“The Rough Lives of Older Americans in ‘Nomadland’,” by Richard Eisenberg, Next Avenue

“In her powerful new book, Nomadland, award-winning journalist Jessica Bruder reveals the dark, depressing and sometimes physically painful life of a tribe of men and women in their 50s and 60s who are — as the subtitle says — ‘surviving America in the twenty-first century.’ Not quite homeless, they are ‘houseless,’ living in secondhand RVs, trailers and vans and driving from one location to another to pick up seasonal low-wage jobs, if they can get them, with little or no benefits.”

LTC Comment (from Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform):

This article gives an ideologically biased perspective on retirees “full-timing” in RVs. You’re invited to think these folks lost all their money in the Great Recession and, thanks to an uncaring government, they’re condemned to a life of poverty on the road. Nonsense. The ones I met on the 2008 National Long-Term Care Consciousness Tour and since are having a ball, living off their Social Security as supplemented by seasonal jobs, often working with the National Park Service in beautiful places.

The Rough Lives of Older Americans in ‘Nomadland’

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