Earlier this year, the on-line magazine Slate did a “Geezers” issue, with stories such as “Pimp My Buick: New technology making older people safer on the road,” “The Best Adult Diaper,” and “The Senior-Citizen Cookbook: How your food needs change as you age.”

The writers at Slate put a lot of effort into this series and parts of it are very good. But a lot of it feels condescending and written by people who see the elderly as caricatures.

We haven’t linked to it until now because we felt so ambivalent about the writing. But there are empathetic nuggets within, especially for people caring for elderly parents who want a better sense of what it’s like to be in their parents’ shoes.