The Uses of Reminiscence
New Ways of Working With Older Adults
Price: $34.00
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-86656-285-0
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 1st January 1984
- Pages: 245
About the Book
The meaning and value of reminiscence in the lives of elders is beautifully explored.Table of Contents
Contents Introduction: A Time for Reclaiming the Past- I. Modes of Practice
- Transfiguring Life: Images of Continuity Hidden Among the Fragments
- The Passion of of Recollection
- Snug Harbor: Workshops at the National Maritime Union
- A Stage for Memory: Living History Plays by Older Adults
- At the Center of the Story
- Tapping the Legacy
- Heal, Body, Heal: Invocations to Hope and Health
- About Ending
- Minerva’s Doll
- II. Concepts and Practices
- The Uses of Reminiscence: A Discussion of the Formative Literature
- Reminiscence and the Recovery of the Public World
- Journey Through the Feminine: The Life Review Poems of William Carlos Williams
- Old People, Poetry, and Groups
- Realities of Aging: Starting Points for Imaginative Work with the Elderly
- A Kind of Odyssey
- III. Appendix
- IV. Notes