Life Gets Better: The Unexpected Pleasures of Growing Older
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (674 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1585428922 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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But in reality, says Wendy Lustbader, youth is not the golden era it is often made out to be. As Lustbader counters, "Life gets better as we get older, on all levels except the physical."Life Gets Better is not a precious or whimsical tome on the quirky wisdom of the elderly. Lustbader discovered that rather than experiencing a decline from youth, aging people were happier, more courageous, and more interested in being true to their inner selves than were young people.Life Gets Better examines through first-perso
Lustbader is the author of Taking Care of Aging Family Members, coauthored with Nancy Hooyman; Counting on Kindness; and What's Worth Knowing. She lives in Seattle. . Wendy Lustbader, M.S.W., is an author, professor, and social worker who specializes in working with older people, their families, and caregivers, and lectures nationally on subjects related to aging
A Smart Funny Engaging Re-Imagination of the Second Half of Life Dr. Bill Thomas Wendy Lustbader is one of America's finest and most compassionate writers. Her long experience with and concern for the well being of older people forms of the foundation of this remarkable book.For more than two decades she has poked and prodded, searched for and then found surprising new answers to the question, "what is the meaning of age and aging?"While I loved her last book "What's Worth Knowing," I find this book to be deeper with an astonishing string of fully developed insights into life and the lives we lead.How good is it? My wife and I read a few pages aloud to each other at night befor. Story Circle Book Reviews said Life gets better. A delicious book. Wendy Lustbader weaves philosophy and sound observations into and around experiences of her own as well as those of others. In three sections, "Hope," "Transformation," and "Peace," she writes of the "unexpected pleasures" of aging. I feel as if I am with a quiet, sincere, kind and receptive good friend who listens well and coaxes the answers to my big questions out of my own mind.Lustbader says, "I have been listening to older people's stories for almost thirty years, hearing them attest to later life as the source of ever-expanding inner and outer discoveries." She gifts the rea. "The aging" according to tmtrvlr. To put the book into just a few words, I guess it would be that instead of a coming of age for the youth book, it is a coming into wisdom book for the older set. It explains the satisfaction, wisdom, and contentment that can come with age. I did find some of the stories about the author's trips around the world a little tedious. It is really easy to be satisfied where you are in your life if you have had the wealth and health to experience worldwide travels, but it there is also a lot of insight into the aging mind in this book.
"Much-needed wisdom about aging."—Kirkus Reviews