| Description |
xiv, 301 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 247-273. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Old age -- United States.
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Older people.
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| Added Author |
Cole, Thomas R., 1949-
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Gadow, Sally.
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| ISBN |
0822305453 alkaline paper |
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