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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... turned Hercules into the human ideal for he had performed super - human labors . Leisure quickly succumbed to such strength and became associated with idleness and sloth . Work became seen as an activity which fulfilled a social and ...
... turned Hercules into the human ideal for he had performed super - human labors . Leisure quickly succumbed to such strength and became associated with idleness and sloth . Work became seen as an activity which fulfilled a social and ...
Strana 122
... turned on all the time , with the volume turned down ) . Mrs. McClure said that it had been a present just before her husband died . " It keeps me company , maybe I watch it too much , but I have to have some kind of entertainment ...
... turned on all the time , with the volume turned down ) . Mrs. McClure said that it had been a present just before her husband died . " It keeps me company , maybe I watch it too much , but I have to have some kind of entertainment ...
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... turned his wheelchair away from us and seemed very absorbed in a magazine , but who was really listening to our conversation since he was not turning the pages of his magazine . At Christmas I had sent Mr. Adams a set of checkers , and ...
... turned his wheelchair away from us and seemed very absorbed in a magazine , but who was really listening to our conversation since he was not turning the pages of his magazine . At Christmas I had sent Mr. Adams a set of checkers , and ...
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