Uses of Reminiscence
Subtitle: New Ways of Working With Older Adults
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: May 1984
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780866562720
Subjects: Gerontology; United States; Older people's writings, Ameri; Older people's writings, American; Sociology; Biographical methods; Social work with older people
First sentence: "A year from now," I said, as I handed around the blue looseleaf notebooks, "I will collect these again, but they'll be filled-with the events of your daily life, sudden encounters with the past, unbidden memories, dreams, angry letters, quatrains, quotations that are part of the world the writer salvages in his notebook, dialogues with God, or with yourselves, grammar exercises, sessions with the dead who continue to speak to you, stories about times of danger, milestones in your life, places of refuge, invocations to the wind, whatever you like . . .