Storying later life: issues, investigations, and interventions in narrative gerontology

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Preface

Contributors

Part 1. Issues

Chapter 1. Narrative Foreclosure in Later Life: Possibilities and Limits / Mark Freeman

Chapter 2. Memory, Metaphor, and Meaning: Reading for Wisdom in the Stories of Our Lives / William L. Randall

Chapter 3. Narrative Events and Biographical Construction in Old Age / Jaber F. Gubrium

Chapter 4. Inventing Yourself: How Older Adults Deal with the Pressure of Late-Modern Identity Construction / Frits de Lange

Chapter 5. In Waves of Time, Space, and Self: The Dwelling-Place of Age in Virginia Woolf's The Waves / Rishi Goyal / Rita Charon

Chapter 6. The Narrative Frame in Discourse on Aging: Understanding Facts and Values Behind Public Policy / Phillip G. Clark

Part 2. Investigations

Chapter 7. The Power of Stories Left Untold: Narratives of Nazi Followers / Stephan Marks

Chapter 8. Young Bodies, Old Bodies, and Stories of the Athletic Self / Cassandra Phoenix

Chapter 9. The Raging Grannies: Narrative Construction of Gender and Aging / Linda Caissie

Chapter 10. Narrative and Gender Differences: How Men and Women Interpret Their Lives / Patricia O'Neill / James E. Birren / Cheryl Svensson

Chapter 11. Telling Stories: How Do Expressions of Self Differ in a Writing Group Versus a Reminiscence Group? / Kate de Medeiros

Chapter 12. Mnëmë and Anamnësis: The Contribution of Involuntary Reminiscences to the Construction of a Narrative Self in Older Age / Philippe Cappeliez / Jeffrey Dean Webster

Chapter 13. Achieving Narrative Coherence Following Traumatic War Experience: The Role of Social Support / Karen Burnell / Peter Coleman / Nigel Hunt

Chapter 14. Using Self-Defining Memories in Couples Therapy with Older Adults / Jefferson A. Singer / Beata Labunko Messier

Part 3. Interventions

Chapter 15. On Suffering, Loss, and The Journey To Life: Tai Chi as Narrative Care / Gary Kenyon

Chapter 16. Older Adults in Search of New Stories: Measuring the Effects of Life Review on Coherence and Integration in Autobiographical Narratives / Thijs Tromp

Chapter 17. Reminiscence Interventions: Bringing Narrative Gerontology into Practice / Ernst Bohlmeijer / Gerben Westerhof

Chapter 18. Life Review Using Autobiographical Retrieval: A Protocol for Training Depressed Residential Home Inhabitants in Recalling Specific Personal Memories / Bas Steunenberg / Ernst Bohlmeijer

Chapter 19. Green and Gray: An Educational Program to Enhance Contact Between Younger and Older Adults by Means of Lifestories / Gerben J. Westerhof

Chapter 20. Implementation of Narrative Care in The Netherlands: Coordinating Management, Institutional, and Personal Narratives / Gerdienke M. Ubels

Chapter 21. Asking the Right Questions: Enabling Persons with Dementia to Speak for Themselves / Marie-Elise van den Brandt-van Heek

Chapter 22. The Ripple Effect: A Story of the Transformational Nature of Narrative Care / Daphne Noonan

Afterword: Toward a Narrative Turn in Health Care / Ernst Bohlmeijer / Gary Kenyon / William L. Randall

Index