Aging Together [Format Kindle] Author: Susan H McFadden | Language: English | ISBN:
B004YPLRY0 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Never in human history have there been so many people entering old age—roughly one-third of whom will experience some form of neurodegeneration as they age. This seismic demographic shift will force us all to rethink how we live and deal with our aging population.
Susan H. McFadden and John T. McFadden propose a radical reconstruction of our societal understanding of old age. Rather than categorizing elders based on their cognitive consciousness, the McFaddens contend that the only humanistic, supportive, and realistic approach is to find new ways to honor and recognize the dignity, worth, and personhood of those journeying into dementia. Doing so, they argue, counters the common view of dementia as a personal tragedy shared only by close family members and replaces it with the understanding that we are all living with dementia as the baby boomers age, particularly as early screening becomes more common and as a cure remains elusive. The McFaddens' inclusive vision calls for social institutions, especially faith communities, to build supportive, ongoing friendships that offer hospitality to all persons, regardless of cognitive status.
Drawing on medicine, social science, philosophy, and religion to provide a broad perspective on aging, Aging Together offers a vision of relationships filled with love, joy, and hope in the face of a condition that all too often elicits anxiety, hopelessness, and despair.
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I highly recommend this book to those who are currently familiar with dementia, as well as those who will become familiar with it in the future (which encompasses just about everyone). John and Susan McFadden have demonstrated, with humor and compassion, that even individuals with severe dementia can still have value as friends, and can still make positive contributions to their communities. I have befriended many individuals with dementia at different points in my life, and although they never knew my name, they taught me a lot about patience, dignity, and living "in the moment." According to this book, the dementia road is becoming increasingly well-traveled, but it need not be a lonely journey.
Par M. L. O'Connor
- Publié sur Amazon.com
The most fortunate among us will age well. But not all of us will age in community. This is the crux of this powerful book.
I'm a pastor of a church and as I read this book I thought of Carl and Eunice. Carl is a World War Two veteran and Eunice is his devoted wife. Eunice has some form of dementia (the complexities of which Susan and John McFadden helpfully explain in detail in the opening chapters). Carl was a postmaster in a small Wisconsin town, and Eunice kept their home. The two of them come to church almost every Sunday hand in hand. Given their generation, I'm not sure they always held hands in public, but now they need to because of Eunice's lack of physical stability. It's a wonderful thing to watch.
Carl seems to know what the McFadden's are arguing for. Eunice needs community as much as or more than she needs medication for her disability.
Something horrible happened in the 17th century. DeCartes' cogito ergo sum turned our world around in difficult ways. Thinking or remembering is not the decider of our personhood. We are created in the image of God to be in community and Carl insists that Eunice needs to be in community even more than whatever medicines she is being given for her memory loss.
In the times of Jesus, the completeness or incompleteness of our bodies seemed to have been the decider of our being created in the "image of God." Lepers should not be touched and the blind should not be allowed in temple. Now, since DeCartes, it is our minds that focus our essential being. And those with incomplete minds are isolated in painful ways. Carl knows that this is not right. So he drives his wife to Women's Guild meetings and sits in the car while she "communes" with her friends (Friendship is a major point of discussion in this book). Eunice is not a "thing" to be used. She is not a "productive unit." She is a person and Carl is stubborn about that.
We live in a competitive society, in which "a person's worth is measured in terms of productivity, accumulation of wealth and consumption of goods." Eunice is certainly not in that category and, to be honest, neither is Carl.
This is a hopeful book about the counter-intuitive.
Par J. Gorman
- Publié sur Amazon.com
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