Aging Sideways: Changing Our Perspectives on Getting Older - Softcover

Leardi, Jeanette

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798348536152

Verlag: Jeanette Leardi, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

IF YOU'RE ALIVE, YOU'RE AGING. IT'S AS SIMPLE AS THAT.

WE'RE BOMBARDED DAILY with cultural messages telling us that to age means simply to deteriorate and decline. While it's true that our bodies and minds change with the passage of time, not all these changes are negative ones. In fact, there are some wonderful assets to getting older.

Social gerontologist and community educator Jeanette Leardi believes it's way past time that everyone hears that story.

She draws on groundbreaking research, expert opinions, and personal experiences to bust the many false stereotypes about age and provides you with surprising, refreshing, "sideways" approaches for embracing getting older as well as for changing the minds of others in your life in the hope that all of us can transform our society into a truly pro-aging one - now and for generations to come.

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Jeanette Leardi is a social gerontologist, community educator, writer, editor, public speaker, and aging wellness leader who has a passion for later life empowerment and finds special personal fulfillment helping older adults identify and share their wisdom with others.Her decade of experiences as the primary caregiver to both of her parents inspired her encore career goals of changing perceptions about the aging process and helping people appreciate elders' inherent dignity, wisdom, and unique value as mentors and catalysts for social change.She accomplishes this through her publications (including her Ageful Living blog), appearances on numerous podcasts, and engaging presentations and classes in journaling, spiritual writing, memoir writing, brain fitness, health literacy, ageism, intergenerational communication, creativity, and caregiver support to people of all ages.Leardi has a master's degree with honors in English from Rutgers University and a graduate certificate in gerontology from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her journalism experiences include positions at Newsweek, Life, People, Condé Nast Traveler, Sesame Workshop, and The Charlotte Observer. Her articles on aging have appeared in national print and online publications.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Jeanette Leardi
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798348536152
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 354
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