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Aging By Surprise Coming Soon

The house didn't change. The person did.

Book overview

Cover of Aging By Surprise by Donald Pounds.

Most people never plan to get old. Aging By Surprise is about the moment a familiar home stops working for the person living in it — after a fall, a diagnosis, a hospital stay, or a caregiving role nobody expected.

Aging By Surprise is not available for purchase yet. No pre-order, price, or release date has been published.

How the book and the community connect

Aging By Surprise introduces the problem. AgingJunction is where people keep going afterward — asking questions, comparing real homes, finding funding, and learning what other families already figured out.

Inside this hub

Chapter samples

Sample chapters are published here as the manuscript is finalized. None are available yet.

Book discussions

Reader conversations run inside the community so answers stay findable.

Release updates

Publication details are posted here first, with no release date promised.

Author updates

Notes from the author about what is being written and why.

Story submissions

Share the moment aging surprised your family. Posting is voluntary and moderated.

Community conversations

Questions raised by the book, answered by people living it.

No chapter samples, excerpts, or release dates are published yet.

Every chapter sample published here will end with the same invitation: the book introduces the problem, and the community is where people keep going afterward.

Continue the conversation

The book is the introduction. AgingJunction is where people find the next step — questions answered by people who already lived it, resources, funding research, and stories.

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