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Foreword | p. IX |
Acknowledgments | p. XI |
Preface | p. XIII |
Contributors | p. XIX |
Issues | |
Narrative Foreclosure in Later Life: Possibilities and Limits | p. 3 |
Memory, Metaphor, and Meaning: Reading for Wisdom in the Stories of Our Lives | p. 20 |
Narrative Events and Biographical Construction in Old Age | p. 39 |
Inventing Yourself: How Older Adults Deal with the Pressure of Late-Modern Identity Construction | p. 51 |
In Waves of Time, Space, and Self: The Dwelling-Place of Age in Virginia Woolf's The Waves | p. 66 |
The Narrative Frame in Discourse on Aging: Understanding Facts and Values Behind Public Policy | p. 84 |
Investigations | |
The Power of Stories Left Untold: Narratives of Nazi Followers | p. 101 |
Young Bodies, Old Bodies, and Stories of the Athletic Self | p. 111 |
The Raging Grannies: Narrative Construction of Gender and Aging | p. 126 |
Narrative and Gender Differences: How Men and Women Interpret Their Lives | p. 143 |
Telling Stories: How Do Expressions of Self Differ in a Writing Group Versus a Reminiscence Group? | p. 159 |
Mnëmë and Anamnësis: The Contribution of Involuntary Reminiscences to the Construction of a Narrative Self in Older Age | p. 177 |
Achieving Narrative Coherence Following Traumatic War Experience: The Role of Social Support | p. 195 |
Using Self-Defining Memories in Couples Therapy with Older Adults | p. 213 |
Interventions | |
On Suffering, Loss, and The Journey To Life: Tai Chi as Narrative Care | p. 237 |
Older Adults in Search of New Stories: Measuring the Effects of Life Review on Coherence and Integration in Autobiographical Narratives | p. 252 |
Reminiscence Interventions: Bringing Narrative Gerontology into Practice | p. 273 |
Life Review Using Autobiographical Retrieval: A Protocol for Training Depressed Residential Home Inhabitants in Recalling Specific Personal Memories | p. 290 |
ôGreen and Grayö: An Educational Program to Enhance Contact Between Younger and Older Adults by Means of Lifestories | p. 307 |
Implementation of Narrative Care in The Netherlands: Coordinating Management, Institutional, and Personal Narratives | p. 319 |
Asking the Right Questions: Enabling Persons with Dementia to Speak for Themselves | p. 338 |
The Ripple Effect: A Story of the Transformational Nature of Narrative Care | p. 354 |
Afterword: Toward a Narrative Turn in Health Care | p. 366 |
Index | p. 381 |
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