Every week, our church prays for old people. Our elderly parishioners beg relief from their back and knee pains. They ask God to heal friends suffering from dementia and heart disease. They plead for their parents, now in their 90s and breaking their hips, their landlines riddled with robocalls. The younger worshipers among us have prayer requests, too—for a grandmother who can’t afford the home help she needs. For a father disabled by his medication’s side effects.
Flatiron Books
272 pages
America is aging. It’s a stark demographic
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