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African American Widow
Air Force
american
Author_Helen Black
Broom Closet
Category=JBSP4
Cognitive Duality
Crippling Arthritis
cultural suffering
death
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european
European American Man
European American Woman
Final Kiss
Fine Days
gendered pain experience
Good Life
Helen K. Black
Human Suffering
Ill Elders
Large Family
Luke's Death
Luke’s Death
man
moral dimensions of suffering
narrative gerontology
Northwest Philadelphia
Problematic Social Constructs
Profane Enterprises
Psychological Suffering
psychosocial aging
qualitative elder narratives
Respondent's Uniqueness
Respondent’s Uniqueness
saddest
social context of elder distress
Social Suffering
Subsidized Housing Facility
Sustained Brain Damage
time
Unique Personal History
United States Air Force
widower
wifes
woman
Younger Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780895033048
- Weight: 438g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 01 Apr 2005
- Publisher: Baywood Publishing Company Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book explores the multifaceted experience of suffering in old age. Older adults suffer from a variety of causes such as illness, loss, and life disappointment, to name a few. Suffering also occurs due to experiences related to one's gender, ethnic background, and religion. Although gerontological literature has equated suffering with depression, grief, pain and sadness, elders themselves distinguished suffering from these concepts and at the same time showed how they are linked. Narratives of suffering from community-dwelling elders are interpreted in this book, along with the personal meaning of suffering that lies within each narrative.
