Growing Older & Wiser: Coping With Expectations, Challenges, and Change in the Later Years
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (958 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0669276790 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 230 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-28 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This guide to understanding the mental health of older people reveals how to cope with the normal aging process and see its potentially positive aspects while dealing with its problems.
"Incredibly helpful to understanding needs of the elderly" according to Vered Sharon. Dr. Billig helps elucidate the myriad and complex difficulties faced by people as they approach later years. By so doing he helps fill a void of knowledge and research about the subject. In his writing, Dr. Billig is at once scientific and caring. As the baby-boomer generation becomes
This encouraging, readable survey depicts life as a process that unfolds continuously through various stages. He treats the complex questions of when aging begins and when its impact is felt (generally in the mid-70s) in a selection of case histories from his practice among the ever more numerous elderly population of the United States. From Publishers Weekly "Aging is a process that produces enormous variability within the populations," finds Billig, director of the geriatric psychiatric program at Georgetown University. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. . Looking beyond the inevitable physical deterioration, Billig views the most important characteristic of living well--at any age, but especially in the later years--as the capacity for hope and optimism. He views such normal issues of aging as loss through death, physical diminutio