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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-five bemoaned the fact that she could no longer wear high heels. Lustbader gathered these stories and more into What's Worth Knowing, a compilation of unforgettable first-person testimonials on love, truth, grief, faith, and fulfillment by people in their seventies, eighties, and nineties. Israel Grosskoff, for example, describes learning about trust while hiding from the Nazis during World War II. Giuseppe Maestriami passes on child-rearing lessons he discovered through growing prize-winning tomatoes. And Arsene St. Amand talks about the importance of making time for love-which he found for the first time only six months before his death. In What's Worth Knowing, readers can spend time with Ole, Lila, Israel, Giuseppe, and Arsene-and a hundred others, whose wisdom matters all the more because of the way they've acquired it.… (altro)
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In memory of my beloved grandmother,
Dorothy Bobrow
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[Introduction] My first assignment as a young social work student was to draw out the life stories of the residents of a nursing home, type them up on an old IBM Selectric, and put them in front of the medical charts.
We lost everything during the depression, except for the family. We held together
[Author's Note] Asking older people what they have learned from experience is an act of respect.
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[Introduction] In the following pages, I invite you to sit beside people like Henry. I think you will see, as I have, that there is nothing sweeter than being able to live the middle of one's life with the perspective of the end.
Every Saturday, I would read poetry to Edna Whitman Chittick. This weekly ritual was the best part of both our weeks for most of a three-year period. When her last illness was upon her, she forced her breath through an excess of water in her lungs, trying to make it through a few days until Saturday. She did, dying a few minutes after I left her room.
[Author's Note] Asking these questions because you genuinely care about the answers may lead you to much more that is worth knowing. The more heartfelt your interest in what someone has to say, the better the responses you will receive. If you happen to come across a gem not already contained in these pages, I'd love to hear it. Please feel free to send me a summary by old-fashioned mail.
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-five bemoaned the fact that she could no longer wear high heels. Lustbader gathered these stories and more into What's Worth Knowing, a compilation of unforgettable first-person testimonials on love, truth, grief, faith, and fulfillment by people in their seventies, eighties, and nineties. Israel Grosskoff, for example, describes learning about trust while hiding from the Nazis during World War II. Giuseppe Maestriami passes on child-rearing lessons he discovered through growing prize-winning tomatoes. And Arsene St. Amand talks about the importance of making time for love-which he found for the first time only six months before his death. In What's Worth Knowing, readers can spend time with Ole, Lila, Israel, Giuseppe, and Arsene-and a hundred others, whose wisdom matters all the more because of the way they've acquired it.
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