''Why Survive? Being Old In America'' was written by

Robert N. Butler Robert Neil Butler (January 21, 1927 – July 4, 2010) was an American physician, gerontologist, psychiatrist, and author, who was the first director of the National Institute on Aging. Butler is known for his work on the social needs and the rig ...

and published by Harper & Row in 1975, it won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. The book discusses a range of problems faced by older people in American society stemming from

poverty Poverty is the state of having few material possessions or little income. Poverty can have diverse social, economic, and political causes and effects. When evaluating poverty in ...

, the failures of the Social Security system, and social isolation, and argues for the necessity of comprehensive reform and developing of a strategy for dealing with an aging population.

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* 1975 non-fiction books Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction-winning works Harper & Row books Books about the United States Old age in the United States {{US-book-stub