With a Little Help from Our Friends: Creating Community as We Grow Older Hardcover – April 5, 2014 Author: Visit Amazon's Beth Baker Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0826519873 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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With a Little Help from Our Friends is a thoughtful and clear-eyed look at the opportunities and challenges of aging in community. Every Baby Boomer who wants to 'age in place' should read this book. So should their children."
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Howard Gleckman, author of
Caring for Our Parents, Resident Fellow, the Urban Institute
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With a Little Help from Our Friends is timely and instructive. By weaving together stories about nine ways to think about community building, Beth Baker helps Boomers imagine alternatives as they prepare for living arrangements more permanent than Woodstock and less scary than where their (grand)parents ended up." --W. Andrew Achenbaum, Deputy Director of the Consortium on Aging at the University of Texas Medical School
"Beth Baker courageously and empathetically asks the question many Baby Boomers avoid: How will we make it through our aging years with dignity, independence and pleasure? The answers she receives from folks around the US, straight and LGBT, reassure us that there are already promising paths being carved."
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Michele Kort, Senior Editor,
Ms. MagazineFrom the Inside Flap
Experiments from across the country with new living arrangements that balance independence and community as one grows older
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- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press; 1 edition (April 5, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0826519873
- ISBN-13: 978-0826519870
- Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,343,046 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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