u/MercuryFlights

I'm trying to find a non-fiction book I'd started reading perhaps 8-10 years ago, no earlier than 2010. It was either essays or an autobiography of life as an artist in one's 70s or perhaps even 80s. I think the author was male and lived in the US, perhaps on the east coast in a place with regular winter snow.

The author described what it was like being older, comparing their art and actions to when they were middle-aged. They described their schedule and emphasized the importance of putting in time for good food and good sex, even if it can't be exactly the same as what they did when younger.

I'm fairly sure I read about the book in a review in the NYTimes or similar. The review said the writing was excellent, which made me look at it even though it's a genre I rarely read.

This is a planning question. My older relatives all have Kaiser (Medicare), and some day they could have a stroke.

Reading about the latest in stroke treatments, it seems that newer thrombectomy technology can allow patients to survive and recover from strokes that 10+ years ago would have killed them or left them in a bad state at best. Based on this, if a relative has a stroke, we should always want them to go to a Comprehensive Stroke Center.

If a relative lives where their local Kaiser isn't a CSC, should the whole family know to always push for going to a CSC? Will Kaiser-Medicare cover going straight to a facility that seems objectively better for stroke patients?

When I read about the difference in recovery, it just seems obvious to want my relatives to have access to the actually greater latest technology. In the South Bay that's Stanford and Good Sam, not San Jose or Santa Clara KPs, for example.