Growing Older & Wiser: Coping With Expectations, Challenges, and Change in the Later Years [Paperback]

Nathan M.D. Billig (Author)

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Publication Date: January 28, 1997

This guide to understanding the mental health of older people reveals how to cope with the normal aging process and see its potentially positive aspects while dealing with its problems.

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"Aging is a process that produces enormous variability within the populations," finds Billig, director of the geriatric psychiatric program at Georgetown University. He treats the complex questions of when aging begins and when its impact is felt (generally in the mid-70s) in a selection of case histories from his practice among the ever more numerous elderly population of the United States. Looking beyond the inevitable physical deterioration, Billig views the most important characteristic of living well--at any age, but especially in the later years--as the capacity for hope and optimism. He views such normal issues of aging as loss through death, physical diminution and anxiety about the future as problems that can be alleviated with medical and psychological intervention, and he also provides an informative chapter on senility. This encouraging, readable survey depicts life as a process that unfolds continuously through various stages.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 230 pages
• Publisher: Lexington Books (January 28, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0669276790
• ISBN-13: 978-0669276794
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,493,451 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Incredibly helpful to understanding needs of the elderly, November 19, 2005

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This review is from: Growing Older & Wiser: Coping with Expectations, Challenges, and Change in the Later Years (Hardcover)

Dr. Billig helps elucidate the myriad and complex difficulties faced by people as they approach later years. By so doing he helps fill a void of knowledge and research about the subject. In his writing, Dr. Billig is at once scientific and caring. As the baby-boomer generation becomes older, his work and this book will become of even greater signficance, both real (as it is already) and perceived. It's a must read.