Old Age Is Another Country

Author : Page Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Age is Another Country written by Page Smith and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted American historian Page Smith provides a travel guide to the unknown country of old age, a collection of essays designed to show the young what lies ahead of them and stir them into changing society so that when they reach their "golden years", age prejudice and disrespect of elders will be a thing of the past.

Author : Mary Bray Pipher
Publisher : Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781568958286
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Another Country written by Mary Bray Pipher and published by Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 2000 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are more older people in America today than ever before. They are our parents and grandparents, our aunts and uncles and in-laws. They are living longer, but in a culture that has come to worship youth--a culture in which families have dispersed, communities have broken down, and older people are isolated. Meanwhile, adults in two-career families are struggling to divide their time among their kids, their jobs, and their aging parents--searching for the right words to talk about loneliness, forgetfulness, or selling the house. Another Country is a field guide to this rough terrain for a generation of baby boomers who are finding themselves unprepared to care for those who have always cared for them. Psychologist and bestselling writer Mary Pipher maps out strategies that help bridge the gaps that separate us from our elders. And with her inimitable combination of respect and realism, she offers us new ways of supporting each other--new ways of sharing our time, our energy, and our love.

Author : Dagmar Gramshammer-Hohl
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 383944554X
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foreign Countries of Old Age written by Dagmar Gramshammer-Hohl and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2021-01-31 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exploration of what May Sarton calls the »foreign country of old age« usually does not go far beyond the familiar: the focus of aging studies has thus far clearly rested upon North America and Western Europe. This multi-disciplinary essay collection critically examines conditions and representations of old age and aging in Eastern and Southeastern Europe from various perspectives of the humanities and social sciences. By shedding light on these culturally specific contexts, the contributions widen our understanding of the aging process in all its diversity and demonstrate that a shift in perspectives might in fact challenge a number of taken-for-granted positions and presumptions of aging studies.

Author : John Leland
Publisher : Sarah Crichton Books
ISBN 13 : 0374717052
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Happiness Is a Choice You Make written by John Leland and published by Sarah Crichton Books. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestseller! An extraordinary look at what it means to grow old and a heartening guide to well-being, Happiness Is a Choice You Make weaves together the stories and wisdom of six New Yorkers who number among the “oldest old”— those eighty-five and up. In 2015, when the award-winning journalist John Leland set out on behalf of The New York Times to meet members of America’s fastest-growing age group, he anticipated learning of challenges, of loneliness, and of the deterioration of body, mind, and quality of life. But the elders he met took him in an entirely different direction. Despite disparate backgrounds and circumstances, they each lived with a surprising lightness and contentment. The reality Leland encountered upended contemporary notions of aging, revealing the late stages of life as unexpectedly rich and the elderly as incomparably wise. Happiness Is a Choice You Make is an enduring collection of lessons that emphasizes, above all, the extraordinary influence we wield over the quality of our lives. With humility, heart, and wit, Leland has crafted a sophisticated and necessary reflection on how to “live better”—informed by those who have mastered the art.

Author : Richard A. Posner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226675688
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aging and Old Age written by Richard A. Posner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Observing that people change both physically and cognitively as they age, Posner suggests that each of us has, in succession, two separate selves - younger and older - with different abilities, interests, and behaviors, an insight that helps clarify a number of issues concerning the elderly.

Author : Michael Kinsley
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 1101903767
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Age written by Michael Kinsley and published by Crown. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vanity Fair columnist Michael Kinsley escorts his fellow Boomers through the door marked "Exit." The notorious baby boomers—the largest age cohort in history—are approaching the end and starting to plan their final moves in the game of life. Now they are asking: What was that all about? Was it about acquiring things or changing the world? Was it about keeping all your marbles? Or is the only thing that counts after you’re gone the reputation you leave behind? In this series of essays, Michael Kinsley uses his own battle with Parkinson’s disease to unearth answers to questions we are all at some time forced to confront. “Sometimes,” he writes, “I feel like a scout from my generation, sent out ahead to experience in my fifties what even the healthiest Boomers are going to experience in their sixties, seventies, or eighties.” This surprisingly cheerful book is at once a fresh assessment of a generation and a frequently funny account of one man’s journey toward the finish line. “The least misfortune can do to make up for itself is to be interesting,” he writes. “Parkinson’s disease has fulfilled that obligation.”

Author : Joseph E. Davis
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 026810803X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evening of Life written by Joseph E. Davis and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although philosophy, religion, and civic cultures used to help people prepare for aging and dying well, this is no longer the case. Today, aging is frequently seen as a problem to be solved and death as a harsh reality to be masked. In part, our cultural confusion is rooted in an inadequate conception of the human person, which is based on a notion of absolute individual autonomy that cannot but fail in the face of the dependency that comes with aging and decline at the end of life. To help correct the ethical impoverishment at the root of our contemporary social confusion, The Evening of Life provides an interdisciplinary examination of the challenges of aging and dying well. It calls for a re-envisioning of cultural concepts, practices, and virtues that embraces decline, dependency, and finitude rather than stigmatizes them. Bringing together the work of sociologists, anthropologists, philosophers, theologians, and medical practitioners, this collection of essays develops an interrelated set of conceptual tools to discuss the current challenges posed to aging and dying well, such as flourishing, temporality, narrative, and friendship. Above all, it proposes a positive understanding of thriving in old age that is rooted in our shared vulnerability as human beings. It also suggests how some of these tools and concepts can be deployed to create a medical system that better responds to our contemporary needs. The Evening of Life will interest bioethicists, medical practitioners, clinicians, and others involved in the care of the aging and dying. Contributors: Joseph E. Davis, Sharon R. Kaufman, Paul Scherz, Wilfred M. McClay, Kevin Aho, Charles Guignon, Bryan S. Turner, Janelle S. Taylor, Sarah L. Szanton, Janiece Taylor, and Justin Mutter

Author : Iswar Chandra Nayak
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 9781646501045
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enjoy Your Old Age: Old Age Can be Lived Happily written by Iswar Chandra Nayak and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old age is the most ignored and gloomy state of life in the present context of materialistic world. The senior citizens are being harassed in their homes in every corner of the country. They are being deprived of love, care and respect from nears and dears at their hapless stage of life which in turn has shaped into a much spoken social issue. Even though realising this, many of us get entrapped in that bizarre. Some accept it as fate and some blame their offspring and the social change. Is not it rubbish to finger others for the issue at this juncture of scientific life? It would rather better to go with an early plan for a beautiful old age. It is certainly possible if we look into certain aspects of our life within which our entire life roll forward on. If we carefully maintain a prejudged harmony in all those domains of life, then definitely, that will lead our entity towards a beautiful and peaceful horizon at our fourth stage. In this book the proposition reflects mainly six vital aspects of life determine the state of our old age life. The aspects are financial resources, Health, Family life, Social life, Life styles and Cause to live. To draw the impact of each aspect, exemplary short stories have been put under respective headings. The short stories have been footed on the real life situations seen in the society. The stories do posses the power to keep tying the interest and concentration of the readers up to the end.

Author : Thomas R. Cole
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190689986
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Man Country written by Thomas R. Cole and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We live in a time of change, an era where old men can maintain health but find dignity in frailty. Old Man Country helps readers see and imagine this change for themselves. The book follows the journey of a writer in search of wisdom, as he narrates encounters with twelve distinguished American men over 80 -- including Paul Volcker, the former head of the Federal Reserve, and Denton Cooley, the world's most famous heart surgeon. In these and other intimate conversations, the book explores and honors the particular way that each man faces the challenges of living a good old age"--

Author : United States. Social Security Administration
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Security Rulings on Federal Old-age, Survivors, Disability, Supplemental Security Income, and Black Lung Benefits written by United States. Social Security Administration and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: