Time on Our Side: Growing in Wisdom, Not Growing Old - Softcover

Rowe, Dorothy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0006380840 ISBN 13: 9780006380849

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1997

Synopsis

Respected psychologist and guru Dorothy Rowe examines our negative attitudes towards growing older and offers a wiser, more hopeful, more life-enhancing approach to the passing of time

We all fear growing older. Whether we are nine and dreading leaving childhood, in our late twenties and dreading thirty, or dreading being a really old person, we all share a horror of growing up, getting old and being past our best.

Dorothy Rowe has listened to people aged from five to ninety-five talk about how they view growing older, and has looked at societies where the old are revered and respected, and societies like our own where they are not. She finds that our fears of growing older far outweigh the real difficulties, most of which could be ameliorated were we to look at life sensibly – which we often fail to do.

But we can change, and we can learn to see things differently. Dorothy Rowe, as usual, offers a distillation of wisdom which teaches and illuminates, providing hope and a new way of looking at the future.

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Review:

‘Rowe’s most far-reaching book’
Linda Grant, Guardian

‘Very wise... Dorothy Rowe serves up a stimulating, well-written and illuminating read’
Irish Times

Synopsis:

Now that life expectancy in the developed world is well over 70, fear of imminent death has receded and been replaced by a dread of growing old. While our definition of old is dependent on the age we have reached - in our 20s we fear turning 30, in our 50s we fear turning 60 and becoming an old-age pensioner - we all share a horror of becoming one of those forgetful, incapacitated, ludicrous figures our parents, aunts and uncles may have become. Dorothy Rowe has talked to people aged from five to 95 about how they view ageing, time and death. She has listened to people from societies where the old are revered and respected as well as people from societies like our own, where they are not. She finds that our fear of ageing far outweighs the real difficulties, most of which could be ameliorated if we were sensible. When we are not, we find that as we advance through life, the mistakes we made in our youth often return to haunt us. However, we can change and Dorothy Rowe offers us in this book a distillation of wisdom which provides support and hope and a new way of looking at the future.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0006380840
• ISBN 13: 9780006380849
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416