Mature Friendships, Love, and Romance

A Practical Guide to Intimacy for Older Adults

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

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This insightful, research-driven book offers practical advice to older adults seeking new intimate relationships, lasting friendships, and better relationships with family members and children.Written to appeal to men as well as women, Mature Friendships, Love, and Romance: A Practical Guide to Intimacy for Older Adults is a serious book about love, romance, intimacy, and sexuality, as well as friendship and family. It is about what happens when older adults lack close relationships and about practical ways to address that isolation and loneliness. Through personal stories and vignettes, readers will see how notions of friendship, intimacy, and love change as we age, what mature love is, and what factors can make it challenging. Among the topics discussed are late-life divorces and breakups of long-term relationships; finding new and intimate friendships; resolving problems with adult children that can emerge when you enter a new, loving relationship; and choosing activities to increase your pool of potential friends and mates. Internet dating is addressed, as are the general thoughts and actions of happy people who agree life can start at 60.Presents powerful personal stories about mature love and intimacy Includes case studies of mature adults experiencing love and intimacy problems, offering explanations of the problems and effective and realistic solutionsDiscusses current research on love and intimacy problems of older adults

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Utgivningsdatum2010-06-02
Mått161 x 240 x 16 mm
Vikt493 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor202
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780313382420

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PrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1 Love, Intimacy, Family, and Friendships in a Time of AgeismChapter 2 Mature LoveChapter 3 Understanding Men and Their Relationship ProblemsChapter 4 Enjoying Older Adult SexualityChapter 5 Coping with Later-Life Divorces and BreakupsChapter 6 Coping with Serious Illness and the Death of a Loved OneChapter 7 Single and Sometimes Lonely: Good Friends and Lovers Can HelpChapter 8 Friends or Just AcquaintancesChapter 9 Resolving Problems with Children and Family MembersChapter 10 Involving Loved Ones in Retirement DecisionsChapter 11 Work and Volunteering after Retirement to Increase Friendship Pools and Meet Potential MatesChapter 12 Where You Live as an Older Adult Can Make a DifferenceChapter 13 Staying HealthyChapter 14 Dealing with Later-Life Anxiety and DepressionChapter 15 Older Adults Who Abuse Alcohol and DrugsChapter 16 Dangerous People: Men and Women Who Are Physically and Emotionally AbusiveChapter 17 The Road Less Traveled: Making the Most of Love, Family, and FriendsIndexAbout the Author201

"Glicken (Arizona State University) integrates vignettes from real people, in their own words, as he discusses issues of romance, intimacy, sexuality, friendships, and family in the lives of older adults. Late-life divorces and breakups, problems with adult children, and choosing activities to increase your pool of potential friends and mates are some areas explored. The author also gives advice on dealing with later-life anxiety and depression, alcohol and drug abuse, and steering clear of people who are physically and emotionally abusive. The book is written to appeal to men as well as women, with a chapter devoted to men’s relationship problems." - Reference & Research Book News