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Challenges of the third age : meaning and purpose in later life /
This volume addresses issues of the Third Age -- that time after retirement when financial stability and reduced obligations to others, together, allow for freedom -- and good health makes it possible to enjoy that freedom. This title aims to answer questions such as: how, in this special time of li...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York ; Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Robert S. Weiss & Scott A. Bass
- Holding onto meaning through the life cycle / Peter Marris
- The third age / Robert L. Rubinstein
- The changing meaning of aging / Harry R. Moody
- Social sources of meaning in later life / Richard A. Settersten, Jr.
- Aging, place, and meaning in the face of changing circumstances / Graham D. Rowles & Hege Ravdal
- Bringers of Allah : the Druse elders / David Gutmann
- Aging, intimate relationships, and life story among gay men / Bertram J. Cohler & Andrew J. Hostetler
- Looking for meaning in a life's experience / Robert Morris
- The search for meaning in the later years : the views of a seventy-four-year-old gerontological social worker / Rose Dobrof
- Epilogue : concluding note on meaning and the possibility of productive aging / Robert S. Weiss & Scott A. Bass.