In the summer of 1996, Ruth Ray, a gerontologist in her forties, befriended an eighty-two-year-old man suffering from Parkinson's. The two remained close until the end of his life, sharing stories and
Energized by leading theorists and by the conviction that public school education has not served African American students as it should, the authors of this report describes their struggle to establis
Nobody's Burden: Lessons on Old Age from the Great Depression is the first book-length study of the experience of old-age during the Great Depression. Part history, part social critique, the contribut
Nobody's Burden: Lessons on Old Age from the Great Depression is the first book-length study of the experience of old-age during the Great Depression. Part history, part social critique, the contribut
This volume explores the moral, spiritual, and cultural terrain of aging through interdisciplinary scholarship and clinically based research.Aging has long been of interest to scholars and practition
