Cambridge At Home Recommends: New Pathways for Aging
Editors: Peg Senturia, Stan Davis, Hy Kempler, Prudence King, Rhoada Wald
In Their Own Words: Coping Successfully With Retirement and Aging.
Getting older can be a downer. Not for this group, members of the Harvard Institute of Learning in Retirement (HILR). New Pathways for Aging is a collection of personal stories, interspersed with poems and theoretical insights, about their lives. Twenty writers look back on their lives and tell stories of loss and hope. The book is a testimony to the various routes thoughtful people have followed as they tackle retirement, loss, illness and relocation with resilience, courage, creativity and hope. This book will get you thinking differently and offer wisdom about these important life issues.
The authors draw upon a wide range of experience in the business world, in social services, and in academia. Their concerns are the concerns of everyone in an aging world – social connections, self-esteem, an intellectual life, creativity, and mortality.
For more than 30 years the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement has helped seniors discover new intellectual interests and make new friends . From the 550 members of the group, editors Peg Senturia, Stan Davis, Hy Kempler, Prudence King, and Rhoada Wald recruited the 20 writers for their pioneering volume.
Also check out their website PathwaysforAging.org. Questions, reactions—the email address is -- pathwaysforaging@googlegroups.com
The book is available at the Harvard Coop in Cambridge (Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement; Cambridge, Mass. 2009; 180 pages; $14.95).