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The New Senior Woman
Reinventing the Years Beyond Mid-Life
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2013
Summary
As people live longer and better lives, both women and men may look forward to many years in retirement. But living well in retirement depends on a variety of decisions people make as they prepare for and enter this new chapter of life and living. This book is for and about women approaching and experiencing life in their senior years. This largest and fastest-growing part of the population is living in a manner very different from our mothers, whose roles in life were much more predictable and circumscribed than ours. Today’s senior women live longer, are healthier, better educated, more involved in the world, and more active than the women who preceded us. Figuring out these uncharted years without role models or guideposts can be challenging, but, here, the authors gather the stories of today’s senior women, who have jumped hurdles, answered questions, and made decisions they never saw their mothers make.
Through these stories, readers will find fellowship and guidance, wisdom and acknowledgment of the challenges (and triumphs) that lie ahead. Culled from women in their sixties and beyond, and from a variety of backgrounds and current living situations, the stories reveal the realities of life for retirement-age women, and demonstrate the dreams, joys, concerns, and fears that come along with this phase of life. They address questions about living arrangements, adult children, loss of a spouse or partner, relationships and friendships, part time work, social connections, health concerns, and more. Facing these new situations with class, dignity, sass, and smarts, these women reveal the various ways today’s senior women can live and love her retirement years.
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Bibliographic data
Edition
1/2013
Copyright Year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-2356-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-2357-8
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
238
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 2
Foreword No access Pages 3 - 8
1 My Mother’s Senior Years Were So Different from Mine No access Pages 9 - 24
2 So Now I’m Retired No access Pages 25 - 56
3 I Finally Have My Freedom and Independence No access Pages 57 - 84
4 We Love Our Possessions but They Are Starting to Own Us No access Pages 85 - 98
5 The Children Are Adults No access Pages 99 - 124
6 I Can’t Use My Computer—or Knit or Rollerblade No access Pages 125 - 146
7 We Laugh about Our “Senior Moments” No access Pages 147 - 158
8 Rx Health No access Pages 159 - 174
9 Separation and Loss Are Facts of Life No access Pages 175 - 194
10 Sometimes I Feel Safest in My Senior Bubble No access Pages 195 - 218
11 Finale No access Pages 219 - 226
Acknowledgments No access Pages 227 - 228
Notes No access Pages 229 - 232
Bibliography No access Pages 233 - 234
Readers’ Guide: Questions for Discussion No access Pages 235 - 236
