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Age Speaks for Itself: Silent Voices of the Elderly
by Tom Koch
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Praeger Trade (2000-09-01)
ISBN: 0275967964
EAN: 9780275967963
Dewy Decimal #: 305.260973
Hardcover: 192 pages
Edition: 1
SKU: 0082798
Condition: Good
Comments: Clean, crisp and tight ex-library book.Stamps on edge of page deck/inside covers/ffep; card pocket inside covers/feps. Dust Jacket in protective mylar taped inside covers; shelf label on mylar. Very nice condition.
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Product Description
This is the long awaited third book in Tom Koch's trilogy on aging. Mirrored Lives was a detailed first person account of geriatric illness from the perspective of the caregiver. It was followed by A Place in Time; here the issue of elder care was more generally considered from the perspective of other care givers. Assumptions about elder care, and more generally about caring for the fragile, were challenged in the analysis of the commonalities of caregiver narratives. Age Speaks for Itself completes the examination through the presentation of 11 separate narratives of the fragile. The introductory chapter argues that as a society we tend to possess a sense of animosity toward our elders. The images of age--the "greedy geezer" and the "suitcase granny"--are, it shows, constructions with little basis in reality. Koch reviews myths of age and compares them to the realities of the lives presented in this book. He critiques theories of age as a necessarily unique and last stage of human life. Instead, he concludes, longevity defines not a necessary difference, but a social state in which seniors are marginalized. The reason, he argues, is that we fear the fact of human mortality that age represents in our culture. This is an important and gripping look at the elderly, primarily through their own lives, and must reading for anyone who has ever thought about the implications of growing old in American society.
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