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The Evening of Life : The Challenges of Aging and Dying Well.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (215 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780268108045
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Evening of LifeLOC classification:
  • QP86 .E946 2020
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Toward an Ethics of Aging -- PART I . OUR DEFICIT MODEL OF AGING -- ONE. The Devalued Status of Old Age -- TWO. The Structural-Ethical Source of the Matter: The Medical-Industrial Complex -- THREE. Beyond Avoidance and Autonomy -- PART II . LIVING OLD AGE WELL -- FOUR. Epiphanies, Small and Large -- FIVE. The Contraction of Time and Existential Awakening: A Phenomenology of Authentic Aging -- SIX. The End of the Story: A Narrativist View of Life's Finale -- SEVEN. Happiness and Aging: An Unlikely Combination -- PART III . AN OLD AGE THAT GOES WELL -- EIGHT. Friendship, Citizenship, and Abandonment: Older Adults with Dementia and without Family Caregivers -- NINE. The Priority of Social and Physical Function: Older Adults in the CAPABLE Program -- TEN. From Diagnosis to Person-Focused Prognosis: Toward a Healthy Political Economy of Aging in America -- Conclusion -- Contributors -- Index.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Toward an Ethics of Aging -- PART I . OUR DEFICIT MODEL OF AGING -- ONE. The Devalued Status of Old Age -- TWO. The Structural-Ethical Source of the Matter: The Medical-Industrial Complex -- THREE. Beyond Avoidance and Autonomy -- PART II . LIVING OLD AGE WELL -- FOUR. Epiphanies, Small and Large -- FIVE. The Contraction of Time and Existential Awakening: A Phenomenology of Authentic Aging -- SIX. The End of the Story: A Narrativist View of Life's Finale -- SEVEN. Happiness and Aging: An Unlikely Combination -- PART III . AN OLD AGE THAT GOES WELL -- EIGHT. Friendship, Citizenship, and Abandonment: Older Adults with Dementia and without Family Caregivers -- NINE. The Priority of Social and Physical Function: Older Adults in the CAPABLE Program -- TEN. From Diagnosis to Person-Focused Prognosis: Toward a Healthy Political Economy of Aging in America -- Conclusion -- Contributors -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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