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Enjoy Old Age: A Practical Guide
With Margaret Vaughn, an expert on aging and formerly a research associate at Harvard, noted psychologist B.F. Skinner shows readers how to make changes in one's surroundings to compensate for the drawbacks of age; combat forgetfulness and keep thinking clearly and creatively; get along better with younger people and children; and deal with the new emotional responses age ...more
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August 1st 1997
by W. W. Norton & Company
(first published September 1983)
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found it in the library of my dear deceased husband, with his ma
This slim volume is one of the best self-help books I've read. Instead of being filled with cheer-up nostrums, it offers a pragmatic, face-reality view of old age, as a time of diminished capabilities that can be worked around. It is permeated with Skinner's behavioralism, though not labelled as such until an appendix that maps the text's plain-spoken simplicity to technical terms of behaviorism. Its central precept is both devoid of sentimentality yet oddly comforting, for it puts the power to ...more
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