With a Little Help from Our Friends: Creating Community as We Grow Older [Kindle Edition] Author: Beth Baker | Language: English | ISBN:
B00JHBXL2M | Format: PDF, EPUB
With a Little Help from Our Friends: Creating Community as We Grow Older
Free download With a Little Help from Our Friends: Creating Community as We Grow Older for everyone book 4shared, mediafire, hotfile, and mirror link In this book, an award-winning journalist tells the story of people devising innovative ways to live as they approach retirement, options that ensure they are surrounded by a circle of friends, family, and neighbors. Based on visits and interviews at many communities around the country, Beth Baker weaves a rich tapestry of grassroots alternatives, some of them surprisingly affordable
-- an affordable mobile home cooperative in small-town Oregon
-- a senior artists colony in Los Angeles
-- neighbors helping neighbors in "Villages" or "naturally occurring retirement communities"
-- intentional cohousing communities
-- best friends moving in together
-- multigenerational families that balance togetherness and privacy
-- niche communities including such diverse groups as retired postal workers, gays and lesbians, and Zen Buddhists.
Drawing on new research showing the importance of social support to healthy aging and the risks associated with loneliness and isolation, the author encourages the reader to plan for a future with strong connections. Baker explores whether individuals in declining health can really stay rooted in their communities through the end of life and concludes by examining the challenge of expanding the home-care workforce and the potential of new technologies like webcams and assistive robots. Download latest books on mediafire and other links compilation With a Little Help from Our Friends: Creating Community as We Grow Older [Kindle Edition]
- File Size: 1124 KB
- Print Length: 288 pages
- Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press (April 15, 2014)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00JHBXL2M
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #95,756 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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A book like this is a great gift to us readers at large,especially for those of us who are moving toward our seventies, are into our seventies or eighties, as well as for younger people with elderly
parents. This is information we need to know!
From her easy, conversational style, combined with an abundance of fact, one can see right away why Beth Baker is an award-winning journalist. She also has a very deep commitment to her subject matter, as evidenced by the great number of miles she has traveled in her research and the many hours of conversation and interviewing she has put in. Baker's purpose in this book is to shed as much light as possible on the alternative ways that people are choosing to live as they age. She devotes the greater part of her book to examining the most viable options individually, each in their own separate chapters. Each chapter contains a world of material, both factual and anecdotal. From the wealth of material Baker offers, readers would be easily able to take off on their own into a more personal world of research. Being myself quite an introvert, my own favorite living plan is the Community Without Walls, in which members live not together but within a network of strong, supportive community.
For each alternative living arrangement, Baker has made it her goal to speak not only to management (sometimes founders) but to multiple residents as well. For each option, she has visited more than one community-and is sure to provide for the reader the names of similar communities and of organizations working alongside, to provide needed services. It is obvious from the detailing of these conversations that they were friendly, open, and frank. The reader feels the authenticity in this research.
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