09/04/2026
✅ September is Healthy Aging Month
Healthy Aging Month focuses on promoting positive aging by highlighting physical, mental, social, and financial wellness for adults 45+, encouraging lifestyle changes like healthy eating, staying active, learning new things, and connecting with others to add life to years.
Check out these recommendations from the USF Health Libraries’ Graphic Medicine collection:
📚 “Can’t We Talk about Something More Pleasant?” by Roz Chast
Cartoonist Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents.
📚 “Wrinkles” by Paco Roca
Retired bank manager Emilio, suffering from Alzheimer’s, is taken to an assisted living home by his son. He befriends his roommate Miguel, an overconfident ladies’ man. Together, they employ clever tricks to keep the doctors from noticing Emilio’s ongoing deterioration ― and keep him from being transferred to the dreaded confinement of the top floor of the facility.
Graphic Medicine Collection: linkly.link/2r5RL
