Eightysomethings, Katharine Esty, PhD
Eightysomethings, Katharine Esty, PhD
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Eightysomethings
A Practical Guide to Letting Go, Aging Well, and Finding Unexpected Happiness

Author: Katharine Esty, PhD

Narrator: Janet Metzger

Unabridged: 6 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 09/10/2019


Synopsis

This invaluable guide will help the historical number of eightysomethings live fulfilled, happy lives long into their twilight years. Old age is not what it used to be. For the first time ever, most people in the United States are living into their eighties. The first guide of its kind, Eightysomethings changes our understanding of old age with an upbeat and emotionally savvy view of the uncharted territory of the last stage of life. With insight and humor, Dr. Katharine Esty describes the series of dramatic and difficult transitions that eightysomethings usually experience and how, despite their losses, they so often find themselves unexpectedly happy. Living into one’s eighties doesn’t have to mean declining health and loneliness: Dr. Esty shows readers how to embrace—and thrive during—the later stages of life. Based on her more than 120 interviews around the country, Esty explores the lives of ordinary eightysomethings—their attitudes, activities, secrets, worries, purposes, and joys. Their stories illustrate how real people in their eighties are living and how they make sense of their lives. Esty adds her wisdom and perspective to this multi-dimensional look at being old as a social psychologist, a practicing psychotherapist, and as an eighty-four-year-old widow living in a retirement community.Eightysomethings is a must-read for people in their eighties, and also for their families. Adult children—often bewildered by their aging parents—need a wise guide like Eightysomethings to help them navigate their parents’ last stage of life with real-world guidelines and conversation starters. Readers, young and old alike, will find this first-of-its-kind book eye-opening, comforting, and filled with practical tips.

About Katharine Esty, PhD

Katharine Esty is a social psychologist, a practicing psychotherapist, a writer, and a change agent. She is the author of Workplace Diversity: A Manager’s Guide to Solving Problems and Turning Diversity into a Competitive Advantage, The Gypsies: Wanderers in Time, and Twenty-Seven Dollars and a Dream: How Muhammad Yunus Changed the World and What It Cost Him. The mother of four sons, she is focused on creating a new understanding of possibilities for living into old age. Esty, eighty-four, lives in a retirement community outside of Boston.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennifer on November 26, 2020

There are almost ten million eightysomethings living in the USA today. Wow! Did you know that??? I didn’t. This book was very informative and at the end of each chapter there are “conversation starters” and “tips for families.” I learned a lot. It was written well and I found it very insightful. It......more

Goodreads review by Ann on September 24, 2019

I picked this title because my mother is in her 80's and I thought she would like reading it. I enjoyed it myself. The chapters are exactly what they say they will be and cover a wide array of topics. The b0ok is helpful too the 80 year old themselves but also friends and families get an insight int......more

Goodreads review by Valjean on December 31, 2020

I'm not sure why I picked up this book but, I'm glad I did. Being in my 80's, I found it very informative and uplifting. It seems society as a whole, wants to categorize older people and essentially put them out to pasture. This book made me understand why I still want to fill my life with activitie......more

Goodreads review by Georgann on March 17, 2024

This was good and offered me some things to think about.......more

Goodreads review by Carol on August 30, 2020

What a wonderful and unique idea to write a book about people’s lives in the eighth decade of life. It’s a positive outlook on what life is and isn’t for many people in their eighties. In the United States, we live in a society that glorifies youth and treats aging like a dreaded disease. This book i......more