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    Eightysomethings: A Practical Guide to Letting Go, Aging Well, and Finding Unexpected Happiness
    Eightysomethings: A Practical Guide to Letting Go, Aging Well, and Finding Unexpected Happiness
    Eightysomethings: A Practical Guide to Letting Go, Aging Well, and Finding Unexpected Happiness
    Audiobook7 hours

    Eightysomethings: A Practical Guide to Letting Go, Aging Well, and Finding Unexpected Happiness

    Written by Katharine Esty, PhD

    Narrated by Janet Metzger

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    About this audiobook

    This invaluable guide will help the historical number of eightysomethings live fulfilled, happy lives long into their twilight years.

    Old age is not what it used to be. For the first time ever, most people in the United States are living into their eighties. The first guide of its kind, Eightysomethings changes our understanding of old age with an upbeat and emotionally savvy view of the uncharted territory of the last stage of life. With insight and humor, Dr. Katharine Esty describes the series of dramatic and difficult transitions that eightysomethings usually experience and how, despite their losses, they so often find themselves unexpectedly happy.

    Living into one’s eighties doesn’t have to mean declining health and loneliness: Dr. Esty shows readers how to embrace—and thrive during—the later stages of life. Based on her more than 120 interviews around the country, Esty explores the lives of ordinary eightysomethings—their attitudes, activities, secrets, worries, purposes, and joys. Their stories illustrate how real people in their eighties are living and how they make sense of their lives. Esty adds her wisdom and perspective to this multi-dimensional look at being old as a social psychologist, a practicing psychotherapist, and as an eighty-four-year-old widow living in a retirement community.

    Eightysomethings is a must-read for people in their eighties, and also for their families. Adult children—often bewildered by their aging parents—need a wise guide like Eightysomethings to help them navigate their parents’ last stage of life with real-world guidelines and conversation starters. Readers, young and old alike, will find this first-of-its-kind book eye-opening, comforting, and filled with practical tips.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateSep 10, 2019
    ISBN9781721385553
    Eightysomethings: A Practical Guide to Letting Go, Aging Well, and Finding Unexpected Happiness
    Author

    Katharine Esty, PhD

    Katharine Esty is a social psychologist, a practicing psychotherapist, a writer, and a change agent. She is the author of Workplace Diversity: A Manager’s Guide to Solving Problems and Turning Diversity into a Competitive Advantage, The Gypsies: Wanderers in Time, and Twenty-Seven Dollars and a Dream: How Muhammad Yunus Changed the World and What It Cost Him. The mother of four sons, she is focused on creating a new understanding of possibilities for living into old age. Esty, eighty-four, lives in a retirement community outside of Boston.

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    • 4/5
      As a 77 year old, I got this book as soon as I became aware of it, looking for guidance as I move into the last phase of life. I did find it interesting, but less so than I had hoped. The most important thing I learned was that most people in their 80's are actually happy, many happier than they have ever been, despite many challenges. The book is based on interviews with 100+ people in the 80's, and the author herself is in that age group, which creates an interesting perspective. She has some information on the traits of people who seem happy in their eighties, and some guidance on how to get that way. A good read if not a great one.
    • 5/5
      No one really wants to think about aging into the 80s. Many of us are in denial. "I'm not old." Psychotherapist, Katherine Esty, brings the issues to the forefront. When she tried to find a book dedicated to this age group, she found nothing. She decided to write a book by interviewing 128 people over 80 and 26 adult children of aging parents. She notes: "Old age is not for sissies... it requires the ability to handle and accept one by one, the losses that are encountered."

      The book is a wealth of information on how to cope with growing old. The author talks about the shrinking world with bodies, smaller homes, traveling less, and making their lives more simple. Besides giving the reader a glimpse of what others have endured, she is a list maker for all kinds of groups including what really matters the most: the importance of family, passion, serving others, living in the present and relationships. She ends the book with reference materials and books. She says, "Do what you enjoy...live your life from the heart rather than from the head."

      This is book I'd like for myself, my sisters, my friends and I will recommend it to everyone. My thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for allowing me to read this copy.