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Author: Janice Elizabeth Graham
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 1442601000
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This volume invites readers to re-imagine the losses of aging by listening to the views of elders themselves. Researchers, students of aging, and policy makers should find this work most enlightening." - Athena McLean, Central Michigan University
Author: Janice Graham
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2010-04-26
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1442604107
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDisease and death are a part of life, but so too is being well. The lively voices found in this book are not shy about stating the ways in which the widely held notion that they are in decline has been a far larger problem than many other features of their lives. For students, scholars, and policy makers, the message is to attend to these voices, and to design and build better programs that address the social determinants of healthy aging and social inclusion throughout the life course.
Author: Becca Levy, PhD
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2022-04-12
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 0063053187
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYale professor and leading expert on the psychology of successful aging, Dr. Becca Levy, draws on her ground-breaking research to show how age beliefs can be improved so they benefit all aspects of the aging process, including the way genes operate and the extension of life expectancy by 7.5 years. The often-surprising results of Levy’s science offer stunning revelations about the mind-body connection. She demonstrates that many health problems formerly considered to be entirely due to the aging process, such as memory loss, hearing decline, and cardiovascular events, are instead influenced by the negative age beliefs that dominate in the US and other ageist countries. It’s time for all of us to rethink aging and Breaking the Age Code shows us how to do just that. Based on her innovative research, stories that range from pop culture to the corporate boardroom, and her own life, Levy shows how age beliefs shape all aspects of our lives. She also presents a variety of fascinating people who have benefited from positive age beliefs as well as an entire town that has flourished with these beliefs. Breaking the Age Code is a landmark work, presenting not only easy-to-follow techniques for improving age beliefs so they can contribute to successful aging, but also a blueprint to reduce structural ageism for lasting change and an age-just society.
Author: Richard S. Lazarus
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006-01-19
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0190291583
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCoping with Aging is the final project of the late Richard S. Lazarus, the man whose landmark book Emotion and Adaptation put the study of emotion in play in the field of psychology. In this volume, Lazarus examines the experience of aging from the standpoint of the individual, rather than as merely a collection of statistics and charts. This technique is in line with his long-standing belief that experiences should be looked at in their specific contexts, rather than squeezed into an overly general statistical viewpoint that loses the subjects' motivations. Drawing on his five decades of pioneering research, Lazarus looks at aging, emotion, and coping, and stability and change in both environment and personality. Because Lazarus mixes academic rigor with everyday examples, this volume will be both useful to scholars and accessible to the lay audience that has so much gain from a systematic understanding of aging and emotion.
Author: Ellyn Lem
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2020-08-28
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 1978806337
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the 2021 Excellence in Research and Scholarly Activity Award from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Finalist for the 2021 American Book Fest Best Book Awards Aging is one of the most compelling issues today, with record numbers of seniors over sixty-five worldwide. Gray Matters: Finding Meaning in the Stories of Later Life examines a diverse array of cultural works including films, literature, and even art that represent this time of life, often made by people who are seniors themselves. These works, focusing on important topics such as housing, memory loss, and intimacy, are analyzed in dialogue with recent research to explore how “stories” illuminate the dynamics of growing old by blending fact with imagination. Gray Matters also incorporates the life experiences of seniors gathered from over two hundred in-depth surveys with a range of questions on growing old, not often included in other age studies works. Combining cultural texts, gerontology research, and observations from older adults will give all readers a fuller picture of the struggles and pleasures of aging and avoids over-simplified representations of the process as all negative or positive.
Author: Alan D. Wolfelt
Publisher: Companion Press
Published: 2012-10-01
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 1617221716
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGetting older goes hand in hand with losses of many kinds—ending careers, empty nests, illness, the deaths of loved ones—and this book by one of the world's most beloved grief experts helps one acknowledge and mourn the many losses of aging while also offering advice for living better in old age. The 100 practical tips and activities address the emotional, spiritual, cognitive, social, and physical needs of seniors who want to age authentically and gracefully, and each idea also includes a seize-the-day action to live fully and with joy in the present moment. For those who’ve just entered their 50s or are well on their way to the century mark, this book promises elder-friendly tips for comfort, laughter, and inspiration.
Author: Joseph E. Davis
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Published: 2020-09-30
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 026810803X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough 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: Doris Moreland Jones
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9780835808156
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnd Not One Bird Stopped Singing guides us through grieving all the events that take meaning from our lives so we can learn to live again. Doris Moreland Jones draws from her clinical pastoral background and own personal experience with grief.
Author: Outskirts Press
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Published: 2018-05-07
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 1478775769
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLife After Midlife is your guide to healthy and graceful aging—a blueprint for a happy lifestyle as you embark on a new chapter. Beyond what we consider the “prime of our lives” lies a fascinating, sometimes unnerving world of ups and downs, surprises, challenges, and uncertainties. But don’t be dismayed… This time in our lives can be extremely rewarding, depending on our outlook. Life After Midlife: A Practical Guide to Successful Aging is an easy-to-read handbook that can motivate and inspire us to prepare for the next phase of our lives, and by managing our mindsets and our attitudes, we can grow old gracefully, healthily and happily!
Author: Molly George
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2021-10-15
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1978809425
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a story about aging in place in a world of global movement. Around the world, many older people have stayed still but have been profoundly impacted by the movement of others. Without migrating themselves, many older people now live in a far “different country” than the one of their memories. Recently, the Brexit vote and the 2016 election of Trump have re-enforced prevalent stereotypes of “the racist older person”. This book challenges simplified images of the old as racist, nostalgic and resistant to change by taking a deeper, more nuanced look at older people’s complex relationship with the diversity and multiculturalism that has grown and developed around them. Aging in a Changing World takes a look at how some older people in New Zealand have been responding to and interacting with the new multiculturalism they now encounter in their daily lives. Through their unhurried, micro, daily interactions with immigrants, they quietly emerge as agents of the very social change they are assumed to oppose.
