What does it mean to grow old? : reflections from the humanities / edited by Thomas R. Cole and Sally A. Gadow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cole, Thomas R., 1949-

Gadow, Sally.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Old age--United States.

Old age.

Older people--United States.

Older people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1986.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In What Does It Mean to Grow Old? essayists come to grips as best they can with the phenomenon of an America that is about to become the Old Country. They have been drawn from every relevant discipline—gerontology, social medicine, politics, health, anthropology, ethics, law—and asked to speak their mind. Most of them write extremely well [and their] sharply individual voices are heard.

Contents:

Tattered eeb of cultural meanings

Meaning of life and the meaning of old age / Harry R. Moody

Virtues and vices of the elderly / William F. May

Meaning of risk, rights, and responsibility in aging America / W. Andrew Achenbaum

Legal reform and aging : current issues, troubling trends / Robert A. Burt

"Enlightened" view of aging : Victorian morality in a new key / Thomas R. Cole

Reminiscence and the life review : prospects and retrospects / Kathleen Woodward

Wizard of pilgrimage, or what color is our brick road? / David Plath

Meaning of health care in old age / Christine K. Cassel

Growing old together : neighborhood communality among the elderly / Natalie Rosel

Frailty and strength : the dialectic of aging / Sally Gadow

Aging and meaning : a bibliographical essay / Harry R. Moody & Thomas R. Cole.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 247-273.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822308171

0822308177

9780822399544

0822399547

OCLC:

884725927