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Reading our lives : the poetics of growing old /

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Drawing on research in numerous disciplines, this book presents a vision of ageing that promises to accommodate such time-honoured concepts as wisdom and spirituality, one that understands aging as a matter not merely of getting old but of consciously growing old.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Randall, William Lowell, 1950-
Other Authors: McKim, A. Elizabeth
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Memory in old age.
Autobiographical memory.
Aging.
Medicine in literature.
Memory
Aging
Aged > psychology
Aging > psychology
Autobiography
Medicine in Literature
Mémoire chez la personne âgée.
Mémoire épisodique.
Vieillissement.
Médecine dans la littérature.
SELF-HELP > Aging.
PSYCHOLOGY > Developmental > Adulthood & Aging.
Medicine in literature
Autobiographical memory
Memory in old age
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary:Drawing on research in numerous disciplines, this book presents a vision of ageing that promises to accommodate such time-honoured concepts as wisdom and spirituality, one that understands aging as a matter not merely of getting old but of consciously growing old.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 327 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-314) and index.
ISBN:9780199719204
0199719209