Synopses & Reviews
Human stories are the core of identity and meaning. This book is an invitation to the engaging and reforming power of telling stories. It is also an invitation to heal the story of health care for older adults by improving the communication between professionals in medicine, psychology, and religion.
At any age the process of genuinely listening and expressing hopes and fears is an intimacy rarely matched in human interaction. Life stories can be told, revised, and rewritten through psychotherapy and improved by a health care which integrates the best of medicine, religion, and psychology. This book invites health care reform by renewing old principles. Through clinical experience, research, and listening to seniors and their families, life stories can be retold to promote healthy treatment and healthy aging. This book will be of interest to students and professionals in psychology, medicine, nursing, religion, and social work.
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The book is well referenced and easy to read....Most applicable to professionals in the psychological sciences.CHOICE Sept. 1998, Science and Technology
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This is a thoughtful and compassionate book about the well-being of older persons.....The strengths of the book include its many references and great number of pithy quotations that sparked the reviewer's interest.....The book is almost of value solely for the many quotations that focus attention the human side of existence.....By reading the book we will certainly think and act more humanely, if not more constructively, about what we surmise goes on within the health care system in the care of elderly persons.Contemporary Gerontology
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Peake's compassionate, insightful, and pragmatic approach presents disease not as an isolated process, but as an experience; an experience shaped and reacted to through personal narrative tales....[This book] also elaborates upon important considerations in working with older adults...[and it also] recognizes and demonstrates that problems often associated with aging are multidimensional (physical, psychological, and spiritual) and multisystemic (individual, family, community, cultural, and political)....[Finally] an overabidding value of this book is that it offers current and future policymakers and healthcare providers...views and concepts from which newer models for helping the aged can evolve.Dr. Larry W. Dupree Department of Aging and Mental Health The Florida Mental Health Institute University of South Florida
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Peake...offers new themes and models for balancing ethical, caring, and scientifically-informed treatment within a health care system with limited resources. The author accomplishes this task by an ambitious exploration of the innate power of storytelling, reminiscence and narrative. Peake strongly advocates for a multidimensional approach to health, aging, and health care for older adults ('third agers'), arguing persuasively for the critical necessity of an integration of our medical, psychological, and spiritual cultures. These carefully crafted themes are given depth, warmth, humor, and poignancy in this concise volume. This is a wonderful resource for all health professionals!Dr. Jerry H. Morewitz Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Eastern Virginia Medical School
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Dr. Peake has made an important contribution to the examination of some critical issues in aging. He approaches in a fascinating way the area of healthy aging and healthy treatment. He makes us aware of the engaging and reforming power of telling stories, reminiscence and narrative....The book has useful information about reducing the health care cost and maintaining the informed yet humane treatment in a managed care milieu....Peake has made a pioneering contribution in this field.Dr. J. L. Khanna Professor of Psychiatry University of Tennessee, Memphis
Synopsis
A prescription for health care for older adults and their families by using life stories to treat the "third age" stage of life.
Synopsis
A prescription for health care for older adults and their families by using life stories to treat the "third age" stage of life.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-146) and index.
About the Author
THOMAS H. PEAKE is Professor of Psychology at Florida Tech and an adjunct professor at the Florida Mental Health Institute.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Twice Told Tales: Lives Recalled and Lives Renewed
Considerations for Health Professionals
A Tale of Three Cultures: Medicine, Psychology and Religion by T. H. Peake and K. L. Blair
Healthy Models: Principles and Places
Healthy Stories and Aging Well
Story Tending: Leit Motifs, Hunches, Hopes and Fears by T. H. Peake and S. G. Rosenzweig
Healing and Illness Stories
Health Care Systems in the United States and United Kingdom: A Telling Story by T. H. Peake, K. L. Sachs, R. M. Vidaver, C. Ballard, and J. S. Rain
Implications for Health Professionals
References
Index