The Denial Of Aging

Author : Muriel R. Gillick
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780674037595

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The Denial of Aging by Muriel R. Gillick Pdf

You’ve argued politics with your aunt since high school, but failing eyesight now prevents her from keeping current with the newspaper. Your mother fractured her hip last year and is confined to a wheelchair. Your father has Alzheimer’s and only occasionally recognizes you. Someday, as Muriel Gillick points out in this important yet unsettling book, you too will be old. And no matter what vitamin regimen you’re on now, you will likely one day find yourself sick or frail. How do you prepare? What will you need? With passion and compassion, Gillick chronicles the stories of elders who have struggled with housing options, with medical care decisions, and with finding meaning in life. Skillfully incorporating insights from medicine, health policy, and economics, she lays out action plans for individuals and for communities. In addition to doing all we can to maintain our health, we must vote and organize—for housing choices that consider autonomy as well as safety, for employment that utilizes the skills and wisdom of the elderly, and for better management of disability and chronic disease. Most provocatively, Gillick argues against desperate attempts to cure the incurable. Care should focus on quality of life, not whether it can be prolonged at any cost. “A good old age,” writes Gillick, “is within our grasp.” But we must reach in the right direction.

Author : Martha Craven Nussbaum,Saul Levmore
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780190600235

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Aging Thoughtfully by Martha Craven Nussbaum,Saul Levmore Pdf

A philosopher and a lawyer-economist examine the challenges of the last third of life. They write about friendship, sex, retirement communities, inheritance, poverty, and the depiction of aging women in films. These essays, or conversations, will help readers of all ages think about how to age well, or at least thoughtfully, and how to interact with older family members and friends.

Author : Oliva Flygare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798749447569

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Challenges Facing The Elderly by Oliva Flygare Pdf

Aging comes with many challenges. It is well known that as a society we are living much longer thanks to improved living conditions and health care. While being able to reach old age is something to be thankful for, in many ways, there are several challenges facing the elderly, which we all need to pay more attention to. Often it is not until we start to age ourselves or we see a loved one struggling that we sit up and take notice, but as a society, we can do more to make life easier for our aging population. This book takes a clear-headed, cold-blooded, practical, and unemotional methodological approach to the myriad subjects that form the aging landscape, especially for the really old. This book observes older people and researches all of the aspects of elder-land, including frequent journeys into the medical complexes that have grown exponentially with the aging of the baby boomers. You will be taken down the road of things to come, and it is not all the golden years crap that you've heard about. We've all watched far too many people age badly and make some serious errors. For some of them, their mistake was simply living too long. We are constantly fed stories about people doing young things at an old age and are told that we can, too, if only we have the right attitude. The author thinks that's a bunch of baloney. Sure you could go skydiving at my age-once. But, if you survived you may never be able to walk again. The truth is that those people who do exceptional physical things at an advanced age are "EXCEPTIONAL!" Most of us need to keep our aging legs firmly planted on solid ground and get rid of the silly notions that we, too, can be exceptional. Most of us have been a victim of the advertising hype, but until we have gone through the emotional and psychological transformation of aging we really don't get it.

Author : Nicole Hollander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1410403858

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Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial by Nicole Hollander Pdf

A guide to some of the most important decisions that come in one's mature years, for example: Accept the senior citizen discount or feign indignation?

Author : Jane Gross
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780307472403

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A Bittersweet Season by Jane Gross Pdf

Wise, smart, and ever-helpful, an essential guide to caring for aging parents. When Jane Gross found herself suddenly thrust into a caretaker role for her eighty-five year-old mother, she was forced to face challenges that she had never imagined. As she and her younger brother struggled to move her mother into an assisted living facility, deal with seemingly never-ending costs, and adapt to the demands on her time and psyche, she learned valuable and important lessons. Here, the longtime New York Times expert on the subject of elderly care and the founder of the New Old Age blog shares her frustrating, heartbreaking, enlightening, and ultimately redemptive journey, providing us along the way with valuable information that she wishes she had known earlier. We learn why finding a general practitioner with a specialty in geriatrics should be your first move when relocating a parent; how to deal with Medicaid and Medicare; how to understand and provide for your own needs as a caretaker; and much more. Includes chapters on the following subjects: Finding Our Better Selves The Myth of Assisted Living The Vestiges of Family Medicine The Best Doctors Money Can Buy The Biology, Sociology, and Psychology of Aging Therapeutic Fibs

Author : Victoria Secunda
Publisher : Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : UVA:X000871101

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By Youth Possessed by Victoria Secunda Pdf

Author : Michael Kinsley
Publisher : Crown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781101903766

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Old Age by Michael Kinsley Pdf

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 : Nancy K. Schlossberg
Publisher : APA Life Tools
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1433827492

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Too Young to be Old by Nancy K. Schlossberg Pdf

The latest take on aging well from Nancy K. Schlossberg looks at the basic issues facing a growing group of Americans over 55-health, finances, and relationships. With this book, readers will be able to think about and develop a deliberate plan to age happily.

Author : Ashton Applewhite
Publisher : Celadon Books
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781250297242

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This Chair Rocks by Ashton Applewhite Pdf

Author, activist, and TED speaker Ashton Applewhite has written a rousing manifesto calling for an end to discrimination and prejudice on the basis of age. In our youth obsessed culture, we’re bombarded by media images and messages about the despairs and declines of our later years. Beauty and pharmaceutical companies work overtime to convince people to purchase products that will retain their youthful appearance and vitality. Wrinkles are embarrassing. Gray hair should be colored and bald heads covered with implants. Older minds and bodies are too frail to keep up with the pace of the modern working world and olders should just step aside for the new generation. Ashton Applewhite once held these beliefs too until she realized where this prejudice comes from and the damage it does. Lively, funny, and deeply researched, This Chair Rocks traces her journey from apprehensive boomer to pro-aging radical, and in the process debunks myth after myth about late life. Explaining the roots of ageism in history and how it divides and debases, Applewhite examines how ageist stereotypes cripple the way our brains and bodies function, looks at ageism in the workplace and the bedroom, exposes the cost of the all-American myth of independence, critiques the portrayal of elders as burdens to society, describes what an all-age-friendly world would look like, and offers a rousing call to action. It’s time to create a world of age equality by making discrimination on the basis of age as unacceptable as any other kind of bias. Whether you’re older or hoping to get there, this book will shake you by the shoulders, cheer you up, make you mad, and change the way you see the rest of your life. Age pride! “Wow. This book totally rocks. It arrived on a day when I was in deep confusion and sadness about my age. Everything about it, from my invisibility to my neck. Within four or five wise, passionate pages, I had found insight, illumination, and inspiration. I never use the word empower, but this book has empowered me.” —Anne Lamott, New York Times bestselling author

Author : Michael Grossman
Publisher : I Michael Grossman
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Aging
ISBN : 9781571431691

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Coming to Terms with Aging by Michael Grossman Pdf

While many societies embrace aging, ours shuns it. We hide signs of aging and whistle past our mortality. We have euphemisms to avoid the "D" word. We create a new apartheid-based on age-that keeps elders segregated in assisted living facilities and nursing homes. All this fear of aging-our denial-undervalues time and erodes our self esteem. Imagine the tremendous benefits of coming to terms with aging.

Author : Vicent Salvador,Agnese Sampietro
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527561878

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Understanding the Discourse of Aging by Vicent Salvador,Agnese Sampietro Pdf

There are a number of books and articles covering particular facets of the topic of aging, such as the image of the elderly in the media, cinema, TV series and commercials, and in literature, which of course provide useful background material and references. However, these studies on aging discourse predominantly focus on a single discipline. This book adds a fresh perspective, by addressing the communicative practices surrounding age, aging and the elderly from a multidisciplinary perspective. The volume addresses several issues related to the discourse on aging, from the problems related to definitions of age to the image of the elderly in literature, cinema, and mass media, and gendered issues surrounding the aging process.

Author : Betty Friedan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780743299879

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Fountain of Age by Betty Friedan Pdf

Betty Friedan launches a new revolution with this powerful, bestselling book breaking through the American mystique of aging as decline. Through hundreds of interviews, Friedan confronts our denial and demolishes society's compassionate contempt--to offer a vision of what can be embraced.

Author : Leigh Anne Jasheway
Publisher : Leigh Anne Jasheway-Bryant
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999-10
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0967448603

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I'm Not Getting Older by Leigh Anne Jasheway Pdf

Stand-up comic Leigh Anne Jasheway (author of Bedtime Stories or Dogs, Bedtime Stories for Cats, and five other humor books) has written the perfect book for the 40 million women in their late thirties to mid-fifties who are tired of depressing books about getting older! This wacky view of the middle ages (no, not the kind with dungeons and chastity belts... ) is filled with hysterical anti-aging tips found nowhere else. Tips like: -- If you're thinking about getting a pet, consider a Sharpei. Looking into her wrinkled face every morning will make your skin seem smooth and firm in comparison. -- Not every woman has night sweats... Many get night sweets -- the irresistible urge to take Ben & Jerry to bed. -- When your friends ask how you keep your skin looking so young, tell them you do acid. You don't have to tell them it's alpha hydroxy acid. -- The trick for keeping your sex life exciting as you get older is to try new things like making love in exotic locations. The other side of the bed, for example.

Author : ERNEST. BECKER
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1788164261

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The Denial of Death by ERNEST. BECKER Pdf

Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the 'why' of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie - man's refusal to acknowledge his own mortality. The book argues that human civilisation is a defence against the knowledge that we are mortal beings. Becker states that humans live in both the physical world and a symbolic world of meaning, which is where our 'immortality project' resides. We create in order to become immortal - to become part of something we believe will last forever. In this way we hope to give our lives meaning.In The Denial of Death, Becker sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates decades after it was written.

Author : Sherwin B. Nuland
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-06
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780812975413

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The Art of Aging by Sherwin B. Nuland Pdf

In his landmark book How We Die, Sherwin B. Nuland profoundly altered our perception of the end of life. Now in The Art of Aging, Dr. Nuland steps back to explore the impact of aging on our minds and bodies, strivings and relationships. Melding a scientist’s passion for truth with a humanist’s understanding of the heart and soul, Nuland has created a wise, frank, and inspiring book about the ultimate stage of life’s journey. The onset of aging can be so gradual that we are often surprised to find that one day it is fully upon us. The changes to the senses, appearance, reflexes, physical endurance, and sexual appetites are undeniable–and rarely welcome–and yet, as Nuland shows, getting older has its surprising blessings. Age concentrates not only the mind, but the body’s energies, leading many to new sources of creativity, perception, and spiritual intensity. Growing old, Nuland teaches us, is not a disease but an art–and for those who practice it well, it can bring extraordinary rewards. “I’m taking the journey even while I describe it,” writes Nuland, now in his mid-seventies and a veteran of nearly four decades of medical practice. Drawing on his own life and work, as well as the lives of friends both famous and not, Nuland portrays the astonishing variability of the aging experience. Faith and inner strength, the deepening of personal relationships, the realization that career does not define identity, the acceptance that some goals will remain unaccomplished–these are among the secrets of those who age well. Will scientists one day fulfill the dream of eternal youth? Nuland examines the latest research into extending life and the scientists who are pursuing it. But ultimately, what compels him most is what happens to the mind and spirit as life reaches its culminating decades. Reflecting the wisdom of a long lifetime, The Art of Aging is a work of luminous insight, unflinching candor, and profound compassion.