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Understanding Communication and Aging: Developing Knowledge and Awareness

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For a required course reading book, this is a very good read. My "Communication With the Aging" teacher was a grad student under Jake Harwood, and she provides a good bit of background on his interest on this topic - as does Harwood himself in one of several asides/personal monologues in this book. The text does a good job of discussing the pitfalls in communicating with older people, particularly falling into stereotypes (sometimes by the aging themselves). He has a nice ability to reduce the science, statistics and technical studies into fairly easy to understand language (O.K., he's a communications specialist). For any who is studying either communication or gerontology, or for anyone who has an important older person in their life, I would recommend this book.

I feel the author of this book does an outstanding job displaying information on this area of study thoroughly and painlessly. The only downside to this book is that there is no glossary, which from a student standpoint is disappointing--however, from a teacher's perspective I'm sure lack of glossary = students actually reading the text, as opposed to just looking up definitions.

The book came in the condition the seller said it would, and I've had no problems with it. I would buy from this seller again.