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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Strana 103
... waiting attitude . They are waiting for death , and some of them cannot understand why they are still alive . The waiting atti- tude permeates their daily lives and the daily routine becomes a waiting routine ; waiting for the center to ...
... waiting attitude . They are waiting for death , and some of them cannot understand why they are still alive . The waiting atti- tude permeates their daily lives and the daily routine becomes a waiting routine ; waiting for the center to ...
Strana 119
... waiting emerge among this group of poor , and two basic ones were identified by me . The first pat- tern is " waiting for Godot " while the second is " waiting for God . " 2 The difference between the two and the derived groups is quite ...
... waiting emerge among this group of poor , and two basic ones were identified by me . The first pat- tern is " waiting for Godot " while the second is " waiting for God . " 2 The difference between the two and the derived groups is quite ...
Strana 120
... waiting.14 While the human condition of life is one of waiting , regard- less of whether one waits for another life or to start a worm farm , as so descriptively put by E. E. Cummings , 15 individuals usually fill their time with ...
... waiting.14 While the human condition of life is one of waiting , regard- less of whether one waits for another life or to start a worm farm , as so descriptively put by E. E. Cummings , 15 individuals usually fill their time with ...
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