Embracing Age: How Catholic Nuns Became Models of Aging Well

by Anna I Corwin and Anna I. Corwin

Book Overview

Embracing Age: How Catholic Nuns Became Models of Aging Well examines a community of individuals whose aging trajectories contrast mainstream American experiences. In mainstream American society, aging is presented as a "problem," a state to be avoided as long as possible, a state that threatens one's ability to maintain independence, autonomy, control over one's surroundings. Aging "well" (or avoiding aging) has become a twenty-first century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978822278
• ISBN13: 9781978822276
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher