Addresses emotional aspects, including self-esteem and identity, the transition from active life, regret, and meaninglessness

Counting on Kindness: The Dilemmas of Dependency

Politics & Social Sciences

Lustbader, Wendy

Social Sciences

Free Pr

Seattle mental health counselor Lustbader here compells attention to and sympathy for those who must rely on caregivers for their needs. Stories are related by patients themselves. From incapacitated men and women we learn of the humiliations caused by the loss of autonomy, of the frustrations at not being able to manage on one's own. Accounts from widely different sorts of patients and those who begrudgingly or willingly see to their care provide graphic lessons in sensitivity.

Counting On Kindness

Parenting & Relationships

Free Press

Offers advice on handling the physical, mental, emotional, and financial needs of the aged and includes sections on spirituality, ethnicity, self-neglect, and other issues

Taking Care of Aging Family Members:: A Practical Guide

Hooyman, Nancy

Aging Parents

The author of What's Worth Knowing challenges popular assumptions about the inevitable decline of one's senior years and the superiority of youth while sharing anecdotal insights into how to experience aging as a process that enables confidence, courage and emotional richness. (self-help).

Life Gets Better: The Unexpected Pleasure of Growing Older (Thorndike Press Large Print Health, Home and Learning)

Thorndike Press

An expert on issues of aging and author of Counting on Kindness presents a series of vignettes that capture the lives of everyday people in their seventies, eighties, and nineties in a compilation of first-person testimonies, reminiscences, and advice from elderly residents in a retirement community. 22,500 first printing.

What's Worth Knowing

Tarcher

Colorful and enlightening vignettes about life by everyday people in their seventies, eighties, and nineties. When social worker Wendy Lustbader was asked to take down the histories of residents in a retirement community, she discovered that "the man with Alzheimer's in room 410" was actually ninety-six-year-old Ole Harlen, a former concert pianist. "The woman who people-watches in the lobby" was really Lila Lane, who eloped to Tijuana with her sweetheart at age sixteen, and who at age seventy-five bemoaned the fact that she could no longer wear high heels. Lustbader gathered these stories and more into What's Worth Knowing, a compilation of unforgettable first-person testimonials on love, truth, grief, faith, and fulfillment by people in their seventies, eighties, and nineties. Israel Grosskoff, for example, describes learning about trust while hiding from the Nazis during World War II. Giuseppe Maestriami passes on child-rearing lessons he discovered through growing prize-winning tomatoes. And Arsene St. Amand talks about the importance of making time for love-which he found for the first time only six months before his death. In What's Worth Knowing, readers can spend time with Ole, Lila, Israel, Giuseppe, and Arsene-and a hundred others, whose wisdom matters all the more because of the way they've acquired it.

TarcherPerigee

Title: Life Gets Better( The Unexpected Pleasures of Growing Older) Binding: Hardcover Author: WendyLustbader Publisher: Tarcher

Life Gets Better: The Unexpected Pleasures of Growing Older

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Counting on Kindness: The Dilemmas of Dependency

Counting On Kindness

Taking Care of Aging Family Members:: A Practical Guide

Life Gets Better: The Unexpected Pleasure of Growing Older (Thorndike Press Large Print Health, Home and Learning)

What's Worth Knowing

What's Worth Knowing

Life Gets Better: The Unexpected Pleasures of Growing Older