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Foreword | p. xiii |
I Write for My Generation | p. 1 |
The Island of Long Life, and the Warmth of the Heart | p. 2 |
When the Fear of Growing Old Assails You | p. 9 |
The Worst Is Not Inevitable | p. 15 |
The Golden Age of Senior Citizens | p. 22 |
Changing the Way We See | p. 28 |
Rethinking Our Aesthetics | p. 30 |
The Beauty That Shines Through | p. 33 |
Yvonne | p. 34 |
Answering Fears About Old Age | p. 38 |
Connecting Generations | p. 38 |
Natural Caretaking | p. 42 |
Sheltered Housing | p. 44 |
The Beguine Convent | p. 46 |
Outsourcing Elder Care | p. 48 |
Guiding Lights | p. 49 |
A Humanist Solution | p. 54 |
Seeing Dementia Differently | p. 56 |
The Right Kind of Care | p. 60 |
Encounters with Remarkable Elderly People | p. 65 |
Keys to a Happy Old Age | p. 78 |
Strategies That Work | p. 79 |
Up with People | p. 80 |
Accepting Growing Old | p. 7 |
Final Frontiers | p. 90 |
Solitude Is Golden | p. 95 |
The Heart Does Not Grow Old | p. 98 |
The Richness of Time | p. 100 |
Activities and Actions | p. 103 |
Living in the Now | p. 104 |
A Sensual Old Age | p. 107 |
Harold and Elise | p. 118 |
The Fecundity of Time | p. 123 |
Consciousness Raising | p. 125 |
Meditative Action | p. 126 |
Meditation, Simplified | p. 129 |
Rediscovering the Body | p. 130 |
Disability as an Advantage | p. 132 |
The Still Point | p. 133 |
The Last Joys of Old Age | p. 135 |
Our Inner Garden | p. 137 |
The Ability to Marvel | p. 138 |
Knowing How to Die | p. 141 |
Conclusion | p. 152 |
Ariadne's Thread | p. 156 |
Acknowledgments | p. 159 |
Notes | p. 161 |
Index | p. 169 |
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