What'S Worth Knowing
$34.88
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
19 August 2004
Summary
Colorful and enlightening vignettes about life by everyday people in their seventies, eighties, and nineties.When social worker Wendy Lustbader was asked to take down the histories of residents in a retirement community, she discovered that “the man with Alzheimer’s in room 410” was actually ninety-six-year-old Ole Harlen, a former concert pianist. “The woman who people-watches in the lobby” was really Lila Lane, who eloped to Tijuana with her sweetheart at age sixteen, and who at age seventy…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781585423729 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1585423726 |
| Author: | Wendy Lustbader |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Jeremy P Tarcher |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 19 August 2004 |
| Weight: | 268g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 152mm x 17mm |
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About The Author
Wendy Lustbader
Wendy Lustbader, MSW, is an author, social worker, and professor who works with older people and their families and caregivers. Lustbader is the author of Taking Care of Aging Family Members (coauthored with Nancy R. Hooyman), Counting on Kindness, and What’s Worth Knowing. She lectures nationally and internationally on subjects related to aging. She lives in Seattle with her husband.
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