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Soul Pain: The Meaning of Suffering in Later Life

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Soul Pain: The Meaning of Suffering in Later Life - Black, Helen
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This book explores the multifaceted experience of suffering in old age. Older adults suffer from a variety of causes such as illness, loss, and life disappointment, to name a few. Suffering also occurs due to experiences related to one's gender, ethnic background, and religion. Although gerontological literature has equated suffering with depression, grief, pain and sadness, elders themselves distinguished suffering from these concepts and at the same time showed how they are linked. Narratives of suffering from community ...

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Soul Pain: The Meaning of Suffering in Later Life 2018, Routledge, London

ISBN-13: 9780415784269

Paperback

Soul Pain: The Meaning of Suffering in Later Life 2005, Routledge, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780895033048

Hardcover