Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction - Thomas R. Cole
The Meaning of Life and the Meaning of Old Age - Harry R. Moody
The Virtues and Vices of the Elderly - William F. May
The Meaning of Risk, Rights, and Responsibility in Aging America - W. Andrew Achenbaum
Legal Reform and Aging: Current Issues, Troubling Trends - Robert A. Burt
The "Enlightened" View of Aging: Victorian Morality in a New Key - Thomas R. Cole
Introduction - Sally Gadow
Reminiscence and the Life Review: Prospects and Retrospects - Kathleen Woodward
The Wizard of Pilgrimage, or What Color Is Our Brick Road? - David Plath
The Meaning of Health Care in Old Age - Christine K. Cassel
Growing Old Together: Neighborhood Communality Among the Elderly - Natalie Rosel
Frailty and Strength: The Dialectic of Aging - Sally Gadow
Appendix: A Select Bibliography of Aging and Meaning
Aging and Meaning: A Bibliogrpahical Essay - Harry R. Moody and Thomas R. Cole
A Select Bibliography
Contributors
Notes
Index