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  • Now What?: Notes From the Front Lines of Old Age

    de Sandra Butler ...
    For Everyone Old, Getting Old, or Loving Someone Who Is.A memoir about aging that goes where most books won't—into the actual, daily, unvarnished reality of being old.At nearly 90, feminist activist and award-winning author Sandra Butler delivers Now What? Notes From the Front Lines of Old Age, a bracing, big-hearted follow-up to Leaving Home at 83. Readers of that book called it "a captivating" ... Leer más

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  • Leaving Home at 83

    de Sandra Butler ...
    So, You Think 83 is Too Late to Start Over? Think Again!Join Sandra Butler as she leaves her home and community of fifty years to move into a residential facility in an unfamiliar city. With meals, activities and proximity to her children, what could possibly go wrong? Well, as it turns out-just about everything.Butler vividly portrays the intricate challenges of this late-life transition, ... Leer más

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  • The Kitchen Is Closed

    And Other Benefits of Being Old

    de Sandra Butler ...
    In her eighties, Sandra Butler does not identify as elderly. Or mature. She's neither plucky nor a burden, and she's not over any hills. She's old, and she's ready to reclaim that word.In this funny and intensely personal collection of essays, Butler chronicles her experience moving from aging to old, remembering and forgetting all the wrong things, feeling frustrated with technology, keeping up ... Leer más

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  • The Tigers in Your Dreams

    The Tigers in Your Dreams is an emotional book containing 14 short stories about adoptees searching for and contacting their birth families, and siblings in search of siblings that they may or may not have known about. This book also contains information and tips for your own search. Sandra and her Committee of eight, M.L.A. Marianne Jablonski and Minister Iris Evans, were instrumental in opening ... Leer más

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  • It Never Ends

    Mothering Middle-Aged Daughters

    It Never Ends: Mothering Middle-Aged Daughters explores the complex challenges and unexpected rewards of aging mothers in their relationships with their midlife daughters. Based on interviews with women between 65 and 85, it illuminates issues of closeness, distance, longing, and need that arise. Mothers speak openly about the ongoing effects of the past on the present, the cultural, familial, and ... Leer más

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  • Gerontological Social Work in Small Towns and Rural Communities

    Learn the skills you need to work with geriatric populations in rural areas!Gerontological Social Work in Rural Towns and Communities provides a range of intervention and community skills aimed precisely at the needs of rural elders. This book fills a gap in the literature by focusing on the specific practice concerns for social workers assisting older adults in rural areas, including the aging ... Leer más

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  • It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It

    From the author to the reader:Show-and-Tell was the very best part of school for me, both as a student and as a teacher.As a kid, I put more into getting ready for my turn to present than I put into the rest of my homework. Show-and-Tell was real in a way that much of what I learned in school was not. It was education that came out of my life experience.As a teacher, I was always surprised by what ... Leer más

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