The Lioness in Winter: Writing an Old Woman's Life - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231151856ISBN-10:231151853UPC:9780231151856Book Category:Social Science, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Gerontology, Women Authors, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:WomenSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SC9PRGS4W2
The Lioness in Winter: Writing an Old Woman's Life
When she started working with the aged more than forty years ago, Ann Burack-Weiss began storing the knowledge and skills she thought would help when she got old herself. It was not until she hit her mid-seventies that she realized she had packed sneakers to climb Mount Everest, not anticipating the crevices and chasms that constitute the rocky terrain of old age. The professional gerontological...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231151856ISBN-10:231151853UPC:9780231151856Book Category:Social Science, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Gerontology, Women Authors, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:WomenSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SC9PRGS4W2
Ann Burack-Weiss is a social work practitioner, educator, and consultant who taught two generations of students at the Columbia School of Social Work and is now an associate faculty member in Columbia's Program of Narrative Medicine. She is also the author of The Caregiver's Tale: Loss and Renewal in Memoirs of Family Life (Columbia, 2006).
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