Growing Older Together : A Couples' Guide to Understanding and Coping with the Challenges of Later Life

Silverstone, Barbara; Hyman, Helen K.

ISBN 10: 067972155X / ISBN 13: 9780679721550

Published by Pantheon, 1992

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Pages are clean and binding is tight.

Seller Inventory # 34763

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Growing Older Together : A Couples' Guide to Understanding and Coping with the Challenges of Later Life
• Publisher: Pantheon
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 067972155X
• ISBN 13: 9780679721550
• Binding: Wraps (Paperback)
• Condition: Mildly Edgeworn
• Seller catalogs:
  • General Nonfiction

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Synopsis

A couple's guide to aging offers helpful advice on how to cope with the problems of aging, including failing health, chronic disability, and diminished mental capacity, with information on available family-service and home-care agencies. Original. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo.

Reviews

Silverstone and Hyman, authors of You and Your Aging Parents ( LJ 9/15/89), address the challenges faced by couples over 55. Noting that many older adults can expect to live beyond 80 years, they reason that increased longevity will bring a higher probability of health problems. While much has been written on how aging affects individuals, little research has been directed to how aging affects a couple's relationship. The authors offer no solutions, but describe how partners may react differently to such issues as accepting aging, changing family relationships, making retirement decisions, facing illness, and coping with disability and death. Helpful appendixes offer a list of agencies and organizations that deal with aging, guidelines for evaluating nursing homes and home help services, and a catalog of common medical problems. Recommended for public libraries.
- Lucille Boone, San Jose P.L., Cal.
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