Chasing independence

How independence works as an unquestioned ideal for aging in America—and why it is never quite realizedIn twenty-first-century America, as people live longer than ever before, it’s taken for granted that older adults should be active and self-reliant. News stories describe nonagenarians who run m...

Everyone dies young

A meditation in the style of Proust and Perec on the abstract relation of age to knowing ourselves and others.

From the inside looking out

Narrative therapy with older adults

This book is an in-depth guide to narrative therapy for students and practitioners in health care, social work, gerontology, and counseling, showing readers how to develop a culturally sensitive practice framework with older adults.

Retirement and its discontents

Michelle Pannor Silver considers how we confront the mismatch between idealized and actual retirement. She follows doctors, CEOs, elite athletes, professors, and homemakers during their transition to retirement as they struggle to recalibrate their sense of purpose and self-worth.

Robert n. butler, md

Robert Neil Butler was a scholar, psychiatrist, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author who revolutionized the way the world thinks about aging and the elderly. One of the first psychiatrists to engage with older men and women outside of institutional settings, Butler coined the term “ageism” to draw a...