{"title":"I Thought I Was the Kid","authors":"D. V. D. Hoonaard","doi":"10.1080/19325610903370413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610903370413","url":null,"abstract":"This essay uses the divergent experiences of the author, a middle-aged woman, at her home in Atlantic Canada and while visiting Florida to discuss how a woman learns to be old through interaction with others. It describes how her experiences in retirement-community laden south Florida, where she was 25 years younger than everyone else, made the better treatment that younger people receive obvious to her in a new way. At the same time she learned that the really old people are ignored in ways that are hard to overlook.","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131435059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intrepid Exploring: Looking Past Fears of Short-Term Memory Loss in Aging to Deploy the Brain's Long-Term Memories and—Wisdom","authors":"Terry Lee","doi":"10.1080/19325610903551541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610903551541","url":null,"abstract":"Exaggerated fears about losses as we age, especially as exemplified by inimical cultural stereotypes about transient short-term memory losses, may effectively prevent older individuals from enjoying the changes in their memory patterns. In later life, a lifetime of memories may spontaneously begin returning to us as we age. New cognitive science research seems to confirm insights from literature and depth psychology that older individuals are uniquely qualified to be explorers, as the poet T.S. Eliot has said they should be. Unlike the brains in younger years, older brains have “broad attention spans” that look beyond narrow boundaries as they search and explore the world about them. This essay includes World Wide Web URLs to 22 minutes of video documenting one 62-year-old woman's exploration of long-term memories in a life-review memoir. She wrote the memoir in a lifelong learning class, as a way of harvesting a part her long-term memory about a childhood trauma, and as a way of helping assuage the traum...","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113965865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Estate Settlement: An Epilogue","authors":"F. E. Netting","doi":"10.1080/19325610903370447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610903370447","url":null,"abstract":"A niece tells the story of serving as a co-executrix in settling her aunt's modest estate. Lessons learned include recognizing that when named persons in a will die, it is wise to have a list of their children; that a will from one state may be seen as foreign in an adjacent state; that ethical issues have to be considered in the settlement process; that updated contact information for any sources of money (no matter how small) is mandatory; and that one must consider contingencies that could impact the distribution of assets to heirs.","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117045677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"John Updike Packing","authors":"R. Adelman","doi":"10.1080/19325610903277055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610903277055","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129833956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Creativity in Later Life: The Poetry of Maxine Kumin and Linda Pastan","authors":"Lois Rubin","doi":"10.1080/19325610903329039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610903329039","url":null,"abstract":"Literature provides a window into what Randall and McKim's Reading Our Lives describes as the “inside of aging,” what is going on in the cognitive and emotional lives of the elderly. The late life poetry of Maxine Kumin, age 84, and Linda Pastan, age 77, offers just such an account of this inside story. Using analysis of these poems and insights from gerontology and literary scholarship, this study explores how Kumin and Pastan's late-life poems reinterpret past relationships and experiences, express fear of death, and find affirmation in links to future generations and the larger world.","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128979442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leaping Across the Abysses of Ageism","authors":"Margaret Morganroth Gullette","doi":"10.1080/19325610903329047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610903329047","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125806536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Method for Improving Intergenerational Encounters: The Case of Mama Bettie","authors":"James R. Peacock, Jo Ann O'Quin, L. Pannell","doi":"10.1080/19325610903295503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610903295503","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this article is to describe a method for developing and improving intergenerational interactions or encounters. Older peoples' life experiences do not mirror the life experiences of younger cohorts today. As such, we propose a method for fostering intergenerational interactions and increasing bases for communication through exploring the life experiences of elders within the context of a larger world or national historical timeline. Younger people can benefit from the use of an historical timeline—the events on which can serve as anchor points in understanding and communicating with older adults.","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128440248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moral Agency of Direct Care Workers and the People for Whom They Care","authors":"D. Shenk","doi":"10.1080/19325610903295495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610903295495","url":null,"abstract":"Few studies explore the attitudes and views of direct care workers who provide care for older adults in long-term care communities or their own homes. This article is based on the narratives and interview responses of 20 caregivers identified as the “best” caregivers in an assisted living community and a special care assisted living community for people with dementia. Their words are used to provide insight into their social and personal identities as dedicated caregivers. This article provides analysis of their perceptions of agency of themselves and as a force of agency for the elders for whom they provide care","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116750798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires, Argentina","authors":"M. Bouvard","doi":"10.1080/19325610903301079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610903301079","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123954582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Artful Dementia Caregiving: The Majesty of Loving What Is","authors":"P. M. Alt","doi":"10.1080/19325610903271652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610903271652","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, two remarkable new books have joined the ranks of recollections written by caregivers of demented older adults. Rather than focus intensely on the particular diagnoses of their spouses, t...","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125678160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}