What'S Worth Knowing by Wendy Lustbader

What'S Worth Knowing by Wendy Lustbader

Colorful and enlightening vignettes about life by everyday people in their seventies, eighties, and nineties.

When social worker Wendy Lustbader was asked to take down the histories of residents in a retirement community, she discovered that "the man with Alzheimer's in room 410" was actually ninety-six-year-old Ole Harlen, a former concert pianist. "The woman who people-watches in the lobby" was really Lila Lane, who eloped to Tijuana with her sweetheart at age sixteen, and who at age seventy-five bemoaned the fact that she could no longer wear high heels.

Lustbader gathered these stories and more into What's Worth Knowing, a compilation of unforgettable first-person testimonials on love, truth, grief, faith, and fulfillment by people in their seventies, eighties, and nineties. Israel Grosskoff, for example, describes learning about trust while hiding from the Nazis during World War II. Giuseppe Maestriami passes on child-rearing lessons he discovered through growing prize-winning tomatoes. And Arsene St. Amand talks about the importance of making time for love-which he found for the first time only six months before his death.

In What's Worth Knowing, readers can spend time with Ole, Lila, Israel, Giuseppe, and Arsene-and a hundred others, whose wisdom matters all the more because of the way they've acquired it.

Wendy Lustbader, MSW, is a social worker, author, and professor who specializes in working with senior citizens and their family and caregivers. Taking Care of Elderly Family Members (coauthored with Nancy R. Lustbader) is Lustbader's first book. Hooyman), What's Worth Learning, and Relying on Compassion. She gives talks about aging on a national and international level. Her husband and she live in Seattle.

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ISBN 13	9781585423729
ISBN 10	1585423726
Title	What'S Worth Knowing
Author	Wendy Lustbader
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Tarcherperigee
Year published	2004-08-19
Number of pages	256
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