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

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

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  HQ1061 .W44 1986    Available  ---
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.
Old age.
United States.
Older people -- United States.
Older people.
Added Author Cole, Thomas R., 1949-
Gadow, Sally.
ISBN 0822305453 alkaline paper
9780822305453 alkaline paper