Enjoy Old Age: A Program of Self-Management

by B. F. Skinner & M. E. Vaughan (1983)

Old age has had a bad press. It is depicted as a dreary wasteland, now inhabited by a very large and increasing proportion of all Americans.

In fact old age can and should be a time of considerable joy and productivity. A little advance planning and a positive approach can provide solutions to the problems of age.

Here, one of the twentieth century's most notable psychologists, himself seventy-nine, puts down what he is learning from his own experience and from his training and research. With the collaboration of Dr. Margaret Vaughan, also an expert on aging, he deals practically and encouragingly with

Thinking about Old Age
Doing Something about Old Age
Keeping in Touch with the World
Keeping in Touch with the Past--Remembering
Thinking Clearly
Keeping Busy
Having a Good Day
Getting Along with People
Feeling Better
"A Necessary End"--The Fear of Death
Playing Old Person
A Great Performance--"The Grandeur and Exquisiteness of Old Age"

The result is a long-needed, authoritative guide to a terrain we all will visit, if we are lucky.

[From the jacket of Enjoy Old Age (1983). New York: W. W. Norton & Company.]

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