Margaret Morganroth Gullette (2024). American Eldercide: How It Happened, How to Prevent It. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 360 pp. ISBN 9780226827766 (paperback)

nursing home residents who died of COVID-19 since 2020 were preventable.Through incisive research and unflinching detail, Gullette explains how and why this Eldercide happened, advocates for policies to prevent such public health catastrophe, and promotes a more inclusive future for elders under the rallying call, "Older Lives Matter."Major concepts that stood out: Gullette reframes COVID-19 deaths in care facilities as "eldercide" -rejecting the notion that these deaths were natural and inevitable.The pandemic exposed how deep-seated, though often invisible, ageism led to such devastating losses.She also proposes the concept of "compound ageism" to show how ageism intersects with other forms of discrimination, such as sexism, ableism, racism, and homophobia.