Aging with Agency: Building Resilience, Confronting Challenges, and Navigating Eldercare

An experiential guide to re-orienting our understanding of late adulthood as one of life's most meaningful and transformative stages

Aging can bring new fears, challenges, and concerns. Loss of career, loved ones, or changing physical and cognitive abilities can leave us feeling isolated and scared. Sandi Peters shows us that growing older need not mean the end of personal growth. In fact, late adulthood can prove to be the most meaningful and transformative period of one's life. The key, says Peters, is the development of one's inner life, and with it a shift in one's relation to the aging process. The book draws on history, philosophy, psychology, gerontology, and spirituality to deepen and expand our understanding of what it means to grow old in the twenty-first century. Peters shares time-tested contemplative practices such as meditation, active imagination, dream work, and creative writing designed to enhance one's inner worlds and enable us to face life's inevitable changes with equanimity and insight. She offers practical advice on issues such as assisted living and home care, and a refreshingly new perspective on matters of memory and cognitive change.

Author: Sandi Peters
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 08/11/2020
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781623174361
ISBN10: 1623174368
BISAC Categories:
- Self-Help | Aging
- Psychology | Developmental | Adulthood & Aging
- Family & Relationships | Eldercare

About the Author
Sandi Peters has a master's degree in psychology and has been working in the field of gerontology since 1986. Her area of specialty is life span development and the possibilities for renewal in older age. As a student of C. G. Jung, she has particular interest in the role of symbolic expression in older age, especially for those with memory loss. Peters is an avid swimmer (especially in open water), teaches swimming to adults, and is a longtime meditator and seeker. She lives in Berkeley, California.