The Last Frontier: The Social Meaning of Growing Old

ISBN-10
0803908334
ISBN-13
9780803908338
Series
The Last Frontier
Category
Social Science
Pages
208
Language
English
Published
1977-04-01
Publisher
SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Author
Andrea Fontana

Description

How do the elderly manage to give meaning to their daily lives? Fontana has spent three years watching and talking to an enormous variety of old people: those who can afford to "grow old gracefully", the elderly poor who scrape by in urban ghettos, and those who age behind the walls of nursing homes. He lets them speak for themselves, and what they say is often surprising: it destroys many of our most cherished assumptions about aging. This book provides fundamental insights into ways to age with dignity and sense. -- Publisher description.

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