The Last Frontier: The Social Meaning of Growing OldSAGE Publications, 1977 - 215 strán (strany) 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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... pursuits in their own right . Men of leisure , unconstrained by the shackles of necessity will " invent the stories ... pursuit for more material possessions . In so doing we all come to look alike in a conforming circle of uniform ...
... pursuits in their own right . Men of leisure , unconstrained by the shackles of necessity will " invent the stories ... pursuit for more material possessions . In so doing we all come to look alike in a conforming circle of uniform ...
Strana 54
... pursuits can be found in more than one way . Consider the following : He had been projected into another chamber and was sitting in a sunken bath with his head just above the level of the floor . All about him , lining the walls of the ...
... pursuits can be found in more than one way . Consider the following : He had been projected into another chamber and was sitting in a sunken bath with his head just above the level of the floor . All about him , lining the walls of the ...
Strana 110
... pursuits , which the coordinator and the do- gooders organize for them . They provide minimal input into the structuring and initiating of various pursuits , but once these pursuits are launched , they frantically join them . Activity ...
... pursuits , which the coordinator and the do- gooders organize for them . They provide minimal input into the structuring and initiating of various pursuits , but once these pursuits are launched , they frantically join them . Activity ...
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