Facing and Fulfilling the Later Years
My concern with the wise and happy use of the later years has arisen through encounter with certain elderly friends and their families who have recently come to grips with unexpected change. Such change could hardly have been imagined a generation ago. Largely as a result of a spreading social revolution, patterns of living are dissolving and re-forming on every front. This affects all of us, but especially the older among us; for rapid adaptation is not easy to those grown used to an accepted way of life. . . .
The whole structure of society today calls for fresh thinking on the requirements for satisfying living through the added years, years made possible by advance in medical science, but years whose meaning and usefulness is now shadowed by automation and the new proportions of work and leisure.
In the following pages I shall discuss the problems raised by this dilemma, drawing on individual cases which may throw light on possible solutions. Factual matter relating to population trends, urbanization, housing problems, labor, family patterns, and medical and social provision can be obtained in detail elsewhere. The purpose of this essay is to consider more fully the social and spiritual needs of the human being growing toward fruition.
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The whole structure of society today calls for fresh thinking on the requirements for satisfying living through the added years, years made possible by advance in medical science, but years whose meaning and usefulness is now shadowed by automation and the new proportions of work and leisure.
In the following pages I shall discuss the problems raised by this dilemma, drawing on individual cases which may throw light on possible solutions. Factual matter relating to population trends, urbanization, housing problems, labor, family patterns, and medical and social provision can be obtained in detail elsewhere. The purpose of this essay is to consider more fully the social and spiritual needs of the human being growing toward fruition.
Facing and Fulfilling the Later Years
My concern with the wise and happy use of the later years has arisen through encounter with certain elderly friends and their families who have recently come to grips with unexpected change. Such change could hardly have been imagined a generation ago. Largely as a result of a spreading social revolution, patterns of living are dissolving and re-forming on every front. This affects all of us, but especially the older among us; for rapid adaptation is not easy to those grown used to an accepted way of life. . . .
The whole structure of society today calls for fresh thinking on the requirements for satisfying living through the added years, years made possible by advance in medical science, but years whose meaning and usefulness is now shadowed by automation and the new proportions of work and leisure.
In the following pages I shall discuss the problems raised by this dilemma, drawing on individual cases which may throw light on possible solutions. Factual matter relating to population trends, urbanization, housing problems, labor, family patterns, and medical and social provision can be obtained in detail elsewhere. The purpose of this essay is to consider more fully the social and spiritual needs of the human being growing toward fruition.
The whole structure of society today calls for fresh thinking on the requirements for satisfying living through the added years, years made possible by advance in medical science, but years whose meaning and usefulness is now shadowed by automation and the new proportions of work and leisure.
In the following pages I shall discuss the problems raised by this dilemma, drawing on individual cases which may throw light on possible solutions. Factual matter relating to population trends, urbanization, housing problems, labor, family patterns, and medical and social provision can be obtained in detail elsewhere. The purpose of this essay is to consider more fully the social and spiritual needs of the human being growing toward fruition.
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BN ID: | 2940150882201 |
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Publisher: | Pendle Hill Publications |
Publication date: | 07/25/2015 |
Series: | Pendle Hill Pamphlets , #157 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
File size: | 114 KB |
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