How to Say It to Seniors: Closing the Communication Gap with Our Elders
Product Type: Book
Product Price: $15.95
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall Press
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Description
A practical guide to bridging the generation gap.
In How to Say It(r) to Seniors, geriatric psychology expert David Solie offers help in removing the typical communication blocks many experience with the elderly. By sharing his insights into the later stages of life, Solie helps in understanding the unique perspective of seniors, and provides the tools to relate to them.
Reviews
Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2009-12-08
Summary: "A great guide"
This book has well-written and practical advice for communicating with seniors. Best of all, Solie explains the reasons we have difficulties communicating. I love the suggestions for tweaking the way we talk to seniors. It helped me understand why my mom perceives things differently than I do. I've tried several of Solie's suggestions with satisfactory results. I am amazed at Solie's insights into senior behavior and thought processes.
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Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2009-08-22
Summary: "Helpful"
Seemed like a magazine article stretched into a book. But helpful none the less.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2008-10-21
Summary: "A MUST read for anyone taking care of older parents"
Within the first 30 pages of reading this book, the way I viewed my aging parents and the manner of communicating with them from then on changed 180 degrees. I understood their viewpoints and what they were saying "inside" their conversations.
I ordered a copy for each of my siblings so we would all be on the same wavelength when dealing with issues concerning my parents in the future.
I have a LOT more fun with them now, I'm not working against them.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2008-09-16
Summary: "How To Say It To Seniors"
Sheds light on why it can be so hard, and frustrating, to talk with our parents and other seniors and, offers recommendations for overcoming communication barriers - theirs and ours.
Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2008-05-25
Summary: ""Seniorese" as a Foreign Language"
I had been feeling as if my 89 year old father was from a different planet than I, one where he spoke a language I did not understand (I called it Oldmanistan). After reading Mr. Solie's book, I was able to learn to speak some of that language and developed a greater understanding of what was motivating some of his talk and behavior. Although it doesn't resolve the feelings I have regarding his decline and the loss I feel, (that would be a topic for another book), it is extremely helpful in guiding us boomers through the unfamiliar terrain of the elderly.
