In What Does It Mean to Grow Old? essayists come to grips as best they can with the phenomenon of an America that is about to become the Old Country. They have been drawn from every relevant discipline—gerontology, social medicine, politics, health, anthropology, ethics, law—and asked to speak their mind. Most of them write extremely well [and their] sharply individual voices are heard.
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Part One - The Tattered Web of Cultural Meanings
- Introduction - Thomas R. Cole
- The Meaning of Life and the Meaning of Old Age - Harry R. Moody
- The Virtues and Vices of the Elderly - William F. May
- The Meaning of Risk, Rights, and Responsibility in Aging America - W. Andrew Achenbaum
- Legal Reform and Aging: Current Issues, Troubling Trends - Robert A. Burt
- The "Enlightened" View of Aging: Victorian Morality in a New Key - Thomas R. Cole
- Part Two - Subjectivity: Literature, Imagination, and Frailty
- Introduction - Sally Gadow
- Reminiscence and the Life Review: Prospects and Retrospects - Kathleen Woodward
- The Wizard of Pilgrimage, or What Color Is Our Brick Road? - David Plath
- The Meaning of Health Care in Old Age - Christine K. Cassel
- Growing Old Together: Neighborhood Communality Among the Elderly - Natalie Rosel
- Frailty and Strength: The Dialectic of Aging - Sally Gadow
- Appendix: A Select Bibliography of Aging and Meaning
- Aging and Meaning: A Bibliogrpahical Essay - Harry R. Moody and Thomas R. Cole
- A Select Bibliography
- Contributors
- Notes
- Index
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