Barbara M Fleisher, Thelma Reese

The New Senior Woman

Reinventing the Years Beyond Mid-Life

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Rather than focus exclusively on preparing for retirement, this book offers the firsthand accounts of women of retirement age, the real obstacles and changes they face, and how they successfully navigate their retirement years.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 159mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781442223561
• ISBN-10: 1442223561
• Artikelnr.: 38083818

Autorenporträt

Barbara M. Fleisher, EdD, is a retired professor of education. She is the author of many journal articles and has presented her research at national and international conferences. She has made presentations and conducted many workshops for and about women in their sixties and beyond, and has interviewed hundreds of women about their concerns as they face new challenges in this stage in their lives. Thelma Reese, EdD, retired professor of English and of Education, created the Advisory Council for Hooked on Phonics and was its spokesperson in the '90s. In that role, and as director of the Mayor's Commission on Literacy for the City of Philadelphia, she appeared frequently on television and hosted a cable show in Philadelphia. Together, she and Barbara created and maintain the www.ElderChicks.com blog. She writes the monthly Family column for www.RightsideWire, and she and Barbara appear weekly on the Armstrong Williams show on Sirius Radio as he plumbs the wisdom of the "ElderChicks." Dick Goldberg is the national director of Coming of Age, the age fifty-plus civic engagement initiative working in thirty communities. In his previous career as a playwright and screenwriter, among the works he authored was the off-Broadway drama Family Business, which ran in New York for over a year, was produced in regional theatres around the world, and was the basis for his becoming a Guggenheim Fellow.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Introduction 1: My Mother's Senior Years Were So Different from
Mine How Should I Be in This New Age? 2: So Now I'm Retired How Do I Fill
My Days So I Feel Good about Myself at Night? 3: I Love My Freedom and
Independence How Do I Maintain It?   4: We Love Our Possessions but They
Are Starting to Own Us How Do I Downsize My Life? 5: The Children Are
Adults Has the Family Dynamic Outgrown Issues of Control, Rebellion, and
Sibling Rivalries? How Do We Keep a Sense of Family across Generations? 6:
Can't Use My Computer - or Knit or Rollerblade The World is Changing around
Me. How Do I Remain a Part of It? How Do I Push Myself to Learn New Skills?
7: We Laugh about Our 'Senior Moments' Should We Fear Them? 8: Rx Health We
Can't Ignore the Changes. What Do We Do about Them? 9: Separation and Loss
Are Facts of Life How Do I Handle Them? 10: Sometimes I Feel Safest in My
Senior Bubble My World is Shrinking. How Do I Expand It? Finale: A
Gathering of the Wisdom We Find in Each Other