epub |eng | | Author:Ashton Applewhite

CHAPTER SIX NOT DONE YET: THE WORKPLACE Older Americans are damned if we work and damned if we don’t. If we stay on the job, we’re criticized for taking jobs ...

epub |eng | 2010-07-14 | Author:Theodore Roszak

2. John Kenneth Galbraith’s Cyclically Graduated Compensation There is something to be learned about the era of the Great Affluence by comparing Paul Goodman and John Kenneth Galbraith simply as ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-14 | Author:Loe, Meika

Olga: Great-Grandparenting Besides caring for their peers, many who are aged eighty-five and beyond continue to provide for family members. At 6:20 every morning, Olga’s caretaking routine begins, when she ...

epub |eng | 2020-02-05 | Author:Susan J. Douglas

CHAPTER 6 The War on Older Women FAR AWAY FROM the bougainvillea-draped precincts of southern California, and in the less-friendly, Corinthian-columned, gilt-embellished, white-male-dominated U.S. Capitol (where of the one hundred ...

epub |eng | 2016-03-14 | Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero [Cicero, Marcus Tullius]

The Active Life Let’s consider first the claim that old age denies us an active life. What kind of activities are we talking about? Don’t we mean the sort we ...

epub |eng | 2014-10-20 | Author:Joan T. Erber & Lenore T. Szuchman

Why try to improve your life if the future is so brief? Young and middle-aged adults are often afraid of becoming old, so it is not surprising that they assume ...

mobi |eng | 2016-04-05 | Author:Jo Ann Jenkins

More and Better Choices If Home Is No Longer an Option While we focus on innovations to help make communities more livable and offer new solutions to help people age ...

epub |eng | 2013-05-02 | Author:Alfred Kadushin [Kadushin, Alfred]

CONFRONTATION The purpose of a confrontation is to point out discrepancies in the client’s presentation that reflect unrecognized conflicts, defenses, and motives that obstruct desired changes. The definition of the ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-23 | Author:Erik H. Erikson

* * * ADOLESCENCE AND SCHOOL AGE To proceed further back: the reliability of young adult commitments largely depends on the outcome of the adolescent struggle for identity. Epigenetically speaking, ...

epub, azw3, mobi |eng | | Author:Atul Gawande

6. THE CHECKLIST FACTORY Some time after that first miserable try, I did what I should have done to begin with. I went to the library and pulled out a ...

epub |eng | 2014-04-15 | Author:Allan Kellehear

8 Waiting—In-between-ness I grew up with six brothers. That’s how I learned to dance—waiting for the bathroom. —Bob Hope Waiting for death has long been acknowledged as part of both ...

epub |eng | 2008-02-14 | Author:Andrew D. Blechman

9 Necropolis SUN CITY, SUN CITY WEST, AND THE NEWER SUN CITY GRAND ALL border a major thoroughfare called Grand Avenue, which connects the distant town of Wickenburg on one ...

epub |eng | 2015-01-02 | Author:Alexandra Butler [Butler, Alexandra]

epub |eng | 2011-08-22 | Author:Arrison, Sonia [Arrison, Sonia]

THE VALUE OF TIME Time-use scholars Dr. John P. Robinson and Dr. Geoffrey Godbey note that, although leisure time has increased, regular surveys over the last thirty years have shown ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2015-02-02 | Author:Poo, Ai-jen [Poo, Ai-jen]

Three Fronts Establishing the Caring Majority framework hadn’t just built the short-term power we needed to win our legislative fight. In important ways, it began changing the nature of relationships, ...