The Uses of Reminiscence: New Ways of Working With Older Adults
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Abstract
Contents Introduction: A Time for Reclaiming the Past * I. Modes of Practice * Transfiguring Life: Images of Continuity Hidden Among the Fragments * The Passion of of Recollection * Snug Harbor: Workshops at the National Maritime Union * A Stage for Memory: Living History Plays by Older Adults * At the Center of the Story * Tapping the Legacy * Heal, Body, Heal: Invocations to Hope and Health * About Ending * Minerva's Doll * II. Concepts and Practices * The Uses of Reminiscence: A Discussion of the Formative Literature * Reminiscence and the Recovery of the Public World * Journey Through the Feminine: The Life Review Poems of William Carlos Williams * Old People, Poetry, and Groups * Realities of Aging: Starting Points for Imaginative Work with the Elderly * A Kind of Odyssey * III. Appendix * IV. Notes