LEADER 00000nam 22005051i 4500 001 frd00046745 003 CtWfDGI 005 20220206175551.0 006 m o d 007 cr un ---auuuu 008 220206t20162016xx o 000 0 eng d 020 |z9780253020734 024 3 |z9780253020734 040 CtWfDGI|beng|erda|cCtWfDGI 043 n-us-md 050 4 HV1454.2.U62 082 04 362.61092|223 100 1 Wyatt-Brown, Anne M.,|d1939-|eauthor. 245 14 The Big Move :|bLife Between the Turning Points /|cAnne M. Wyatt-Brown, Ruth Ray Karpen, and Helen Q. Kivnick ; with an afterword by Margaret Morganroth Gullette. 264 1 [Place of publication not identified] :|bIndiana University Press,|c[2016] 264 4 |c©2016 300 1 online resource (119 pages) 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 347 text file|2rdaft 347 |b(epub) 506 Access limited to subscribing institutions. 520 "A fascinating attempt to marry personal experience with academic analysis to help us all reconceive of one option for later-life living." -- The Huffington Post When her husband's ill health forces them to move into an assisted living facility, Anne M. Wyatt-Brown suddenly finds herself surrounded by elderly residents. In this lively and provocative collection, other distinguished gerontologists reflect on Anne's moving account of her transition to becoming a member of a vibrant and sociable community that offers care-giving support, while encouraging her to pursue her own interests, including exercising, reviewing articles for scholarly journals, serving on committees, and singing. By redefining notions of care and community, undoing the stigmas of aging, and valuing the psychological factors involved in accepting assistance, this volume provides a bold new framework for thinking about aging, continuing care, making the big move to a retirement community, and living with vitality in the new environment. "We have very few accounts of gerontologists who have grown old, and never before a memoir by a gerontologist who moved into a long-term care facility. This book is not only a first, but is a remarkable and riveting account of challenges all of us must contemplate... memorable and compelling." -- Rick Moody, retired Vice President for Academic Affairs, AARP "Readers will be drawn to this book for its clarity and candidness. It will appeal to people of all ages, but especially to the large cohort of readers aging into later life and facing important choices about their own care and that of their partners." -- Barbara Frey Waxman, author of To Live in the Center of the Moment"--|cProvided by Freading. 588 0 Publisher metadata. 600 10 Wyatt-Brown, Anne M.,|d1939- 650 0 Life care communities|zMaryland. 650 0 Retirement communities|zMaryland. 650 0 Older people|zMaryland|xSocial conditions. 650 0 Older people|xCare|zMaryland. 650 0 Caregivers|zMaryland. 650 0 Life change events|zMaryland. 650 7 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology.|2bisacsh 655 0 Electronic books. 700 1 Ray, Ruth E.,|d1954-|eauthor. 700 1 Kivnick, Helen Q.,|eauthor. 914 frd00046745
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