Storying later life : issues, investigations, and interventions in narrative gerontology /
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| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, 2011. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (xxi, 397 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11245865 |
Table of Contents:
- Issues
- Narrative foreclosure in later life: possibilities and limits / Mark Freeman
- Memory, metaphor, and meaning: reading for wisdom in the stories of our lives / William L. Randall
- Narrative events and biographical construction in old age / Jaber F. Gubrium
- Inventing yourself: how older adults deal with the pressure of late-modern identity construction / Frits de Lange
- In waves of time, space, and self: the dwelling-place of age in Virginia Woolf's The waves / Rishi Goyal and Rita Charon
- The narrative frame in discourse on aging: understanding facts and values behind public policy / Phillip G. Clark
- Investigations
- The power of stories left untold: narratives of Nazi followers / Stephen Marks
- Young bodies, old bodies, and stories of the athletic self / Cassandra Phoenix
- The raging grannies: narrative construction of gender and aging / Linda Caissie
- Narrative and gender differences: how men and women interpret their lives / Patricia O-Neill, James E. Birren and Cheryl Svensson
- Telling stories: how do expressions of self differ in a writing group versus a reminiscence group? / Kate de Medeiros
- Mnëemë and anamnësis: the contribution of involuntary reminiscences to the construction of a narrative self in older age / Phileppe Cappeliez and Jeffrey Dean Webster
- Achieving narrative coherence following traumatic war experience: the role of social support / Karen Burnell, Peter Coleman, and Nigel Hunt
- Using self-defining memories in couples therapy with older adults / Jefferson A. Singer and Beata Labunko Messier
- Interventions
- On suffering, loss and the journey to life: Tai Chi as narrative chare / Gary Kenyon
- Older adults in search of new stories: measuring the effects of life review on coherence and integration in autobiographical narratives / Thijs Tromp
- Reminiscence interventions: bringing narrative gerontology into practice / Ernst Bohlmeijer and Gerben Westerhof
- Life review using autobiographical retrieval: a protocol for training depressed residential home inhabitants in recalling specific personal memories / Bas Steunenberg and Ernst Bohlmeijer
- "Green and gray": an educational program to enhance contact between younger and older adults by means of lifestories / Gerben M. Ubels
- Implementation of narrative care in The Netherlands; coordinating management, institutional, and personal narratives / Gerdienke M. Ubels
- Asking the right questions: enabling persons with dementia to speak for themselves / Marie-Elise van den Brand-van Heek
- The ripple effect: a story of the transformational nature of narrative care / Daphne Noonan
- Afterword
- Toward a narrative turn in health care / Ernst Bohlmeijer, Gary Kenyon, and William L. Randall.