Book Reviews : Susan Garrett, Miles to Go: Aging in Rural Virginia. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1998. Cloth, $22.95, 188 pp

Abstract

This specifically focused volume is the fifth in the Aging Studies series, edited by Anne M. Wyatt. Susan Garrett, in her role as observer and volunteer, has provided the reader with a detailed account of the Rural Elder Outreach Project (REOP), a collaborative demonstration project funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. The Schools of Nursing and Medicine at the University of Virginia partnered with two local agencies to model effective ways of providing health care to frail elders living in five rural Virginia counties. The volume is unique among those who have previously examined aging in rural areas because Garrett weaves together research, her own observations while serving as a volunteer for the project, conversations among project staff, diary entries regarding specific case studies, and details regarding the day-to-day operation of this collaboration. The volume contains eight chapters that chronicle the REOP project. A brief