Peters Sandi - Aging With Agency Building Resilience Confronting Challenges And Navigating Eldercare - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: An experiential guide to re - orienting our understanding of late adulthood as one of life's most meaningful and transformative stages Aging can bring new fears challenges and concerns. Loss of career loved ones or changing physical and cognitive abilities can leave us feeling isolated and scared. Sandi Peters shows us that growing older need not mean the end of personal growth. In fact late adulthood can prove to be the most meaningful and transformative period of one's life. The key says Peters is the development of one's inner life and with it a shift in one's relation to the aging process. The book draws on history philosophy psychology gerontology and spirituality to deepen and expand our understanding of what it means to grow old in the twenty - first century. Peters shares time - tested contemplative practices such as meditation active imagination dream work and creative writing designed to enhance one's inner worlds and enable us to face life's inevitable changes with equanimity and insight. She offers practical advice on issues such as assisted living and home care and a refreshingly new perspective on matters of memory and cognitive change.
Title: Aging With Agency Building Resilience Confronting Challenges And Navigating Eldercare
Author(s): Peters Sandi
Publisher: North Atlantic Books U. S.
Barcode: 9781623174361
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 8/11/2020
Category: Self-Help & Personal Development