Synopses & Reviews
Will You Still Need Me?: Feeling Wanted, Loved, and Meaningful as We Age is a touching and incisive book organized around interviews with individuals of various ages who have responded to questions about aging. The interviewees offer their unguarded thoughts about aging with a significant other—or alone. They reveal their self perceptions, their feelings about the future, their self-image as it relates to aging, and their expectations and impressions of aging itself. They also share their concerns that with aging comes not only possible loneliness, but also meaninglessness and even uselessness.
Psychotherapist Angela Browne-Miller weaves the findings into a philosophical, research-based overview of cross-generational concerns and feelings about aging. Her book opens a window into the hearts and minds of our parents, our peers, and our children as they look at the aging process and at how individuals, society, and families treat aging. Through the sensitive, up-close-and-personal, bird's-eye view of the people interviewed for this book, aging unfolds into a deeply moving experience, one we all share.
Synopsis
This insightful and moving book looks at how people of various ages view the process of aging and the social and emotional perspectives it evokes.
Will You Still Need Me?: Feeling Wanted, Loved, and Meaningful as We Age is a touching and incisive book organized around interviews with individuals of various ages who have responded to questions about aging. The interviewees offer their unguarded thoughts about aging with a significant other--or alone. They reveal their self perceptions, their feelings about the future, their self-image as it relates to aging, and their expectations and impressions of aging itself. They also share their concerns that with aging comes not only possible loneliness, but also meaninglessness and even uselessness.
Psychotherapist Angela Browne-Miller weaves the findings into a philosophical, research-based overview of cross-generational concerns and feelings about aging. Her book opens a window into the hearts and minds of our parents, our peers, and our children as they look at the aging process and at how individuals, society, and families treat aging. Through the sensitive, up-close-and-personal, bird's-eye view of the people interviewed for this book, aging unfolds into a deeply moving experience, one we all share.
Synopsis
This insightful and moving book looks at how people of various ages view the process of aging and the social and emotional perspectives it evokes.
Synopsis
• Offers a unique approach to the emotional and social aspects of aging, of watching aging, and of contemplating one's future
• Discusses a broad range of emotional and social attitudes and perceptions related to the aging process
• Provides a cross-generational perspective on a topic that involves every man, woman, and child
• Covers more than loving partner relationships, or the absence of these, and also looks at the role of and attitudes towards family, friends, and community as they relate to and affect aging
• Looks at how the way we experience events such as divorce, job loss, economic crisis, pain and disability, and how losing longtime friends affects our perceptions of the coming of our our own aging, and aging itself
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• Includes some 50 interview reports describing people's views regarding the aging they see around them and their own aging processes
• Presents a group of sensitive illustrations and photographs by the author
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Every one of us thinks about growing old. For some this is a far off concept, while for others aging is occurring right now or in the not-so-distance future. Without a doubt, the average increase in life expectancies and in marriage breakup will force many more individuals, families, and friends to deal with the psychological factors of aging.