Old Age Is Another Country: A Traveler's Guide - Softcover

Smith, Page

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0895947765 ISBN 13: 9780895947765

Publisher: Crossing Pr, 1995

Synopsis

Shares jokes and sayings about old age, and discusses reunions, memories, health, accumulations of a lifetime, sleep, pain, wrinkles, retirement, death, and last words

About this title

From Library Journal:

Smith (Rediscovering Christianity, St. Martin's, 1993) feebly attempts here to define and confine the experience of growing older. The author's thesis is not clearly specified, however. Chapters "Naming Old Age," "Guidelines," "Retirement," and "Death, Joy, and Love Are the Answers" reflect only fragmentary feelings and information, thus leaving readers without a context to support a definition of the aging process. Facts presented appear to reflect Smith's personal biases, with sweeping generalizations based soley on the author's individual experiences. In the chapter "The Old and the Medical Establishment," Smith briefly treats such a complex topic by blaming the medical profession for failing to respond to human inevitabilities. Any of the chapters could be eliminated without affecting the thread of the narrative. Smith fails to chart the course through the world of aging. Not recommended.
Linda Malone, DePaul Medical Ctr., Norfolk, Va.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Crossing Pr
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0895947765
• ISBN 13: 9780895947765
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 150