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Another Country: Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Our Elders
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Item# 268306179 - Store# 26830 - mckenzie books
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[Pipher] ventures into communities and then returns to explain their truths and ways of being to the rest of us in clear, clean English. Totally accessible...[Another Country] is a compassionate...look at the disconnect between baby boomers and their aging parents or grandparents. -USAToday There are more older people in America today than ever before. They are our parents and grandparents, our aunts and uncles and in-laws.They are living longer, but in a culture that has come to worship youth-a culture in which families have dispersed, communities have broken down, and older people are isolated. Meanwhile, adults in two-career families are struggling to divide their time among their kids, their jobs, and their aging parents-searching for the right words to talk about loneliness, forgetfulness, or selling the house. Another Country is a field guide to this rough terrain for a generation of baby boomers who are finding themselves unprepared to care for those who have always cared for them. Psychologist and bestselling writer Mary Pipher maps out strategies that help bridge the gaps that separate us from our elders. And with her inimitable combination of respect and realism, she offers us new ways of supporting each other-new ways of sharing our time, our energy, and our love. In Another Country, [Pipher] observes that to grow old for many people in todays fragmented, age-phobic, age-segregated America is to inhabit a foreign country, isolated, disconnected and misunderstood.-New York Times Pipher explores how todays mobile, individualistic, media-drenched culture prevents so many dependent old people, and the relatives trying to do right by them, from getting what they need...her insights will help people of several generations.-The Washington Post [Pipher] wrote [Another Country] to help Boomers like herself better understand the...
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Paperback / Acceptable / Mary Pipher / Cover is creased. Some wear to the cover and pages. Has heavy highlighting. Has some underlining and writing. Mary Piphers phenomenal New York Times bestseller-a book about us and our parents... / Save 66%
Health, Mind & Body
Psychology & Counseling
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