From Harvard Medical School: Health Report Aging in Place (from Phil Redmond, 11/30/23)

Two books suggested by Sissela Bok, Esplanade resident, with her thoughts on each

-- fascinating recent novel that explores a number of dramatically different approaches to concerns about issues of aging and how they relate to the particular places in which people find themselves or choose to live while growing old: Margaret Drabble's The Dark Flood Rises.  The review below is from the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/the-dark-flood-rises-margaret-drabbles-witty-novel-about-aging/2017/02/13/2c77f0de-eef1-11e6-9973-c5efb7ccfb0d_story.html?utm_term=.e2af3862dc6c

 -- Helen Luke, in her short, beautiful 1987 book Old Age: Journey into Simplicity, presents a perspective that would have astounded most, but not all, the aging individuals in Drabble's book. Luke, a Jungian analyst, speaks of the possibility of growing old, as she puts it, by drawing on and freeing up one's inner resources, in chapters on the Odyssey, King Lear, The Tempest, and Little Gidding.