Recommend Reading for August 2016
Recommend Reading for August 2016
How To Say It to Seniors: Closing the Communication Gap with Our EldersBy: David Solie
This book explores the reasons that communicating with the older adults is sometimes so frustrating and offers strategies and skills for overcoming these difficulties. In the book I show that by understanding our older adults’ unique developmental agenda and using different language, phrases, and vocabulary, anyone – relatives, friends, colleagues – can learn to communicate effectively and effortlessly with their aging family members, acquaintances, and clients.
Aimed at baby boomers and their parents, professionals who work with the older adults, and everyone who has regular contact with older adults and finds conversations at times to be an exercise in frustration, this book offers the insights I’ve formed in serving this segment of the population over the past 25 years.
The book has four aims:
- To help readers understand the conflicting and previously unappreciated tasks on the older adult’s unique developmental agenda;
- To recognize how these developmental tasks can interfere with our ability to communicate effectively;
- To offer easy-to-learn skills that enhance communication between the generations;
- To guide us in becoming advocates for our aging parents.
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