Will You Still Need Me? Feeling Wanted, Loved, and Meaningful as We Age - Hardcover

by Angela Browne-Miller (Author)

This insightful and moving book looks at how people of various ages view the process of aging and the social and emotional perspectives it evokes.

Will You Still Need Me?: Feeling Wanted, Loved, and Meaningful as We Age is a touching and incisive book organized around interviews with individuals of various ages who have responded to questions about aging. The interviewees offer their unguarded thoughts about aging with a significant other--or alone. They reveal their self perceptions, their feelings about the future, their self-image as it relates to aging, and their expectations and impressions of aging itself. They also share their concerns that with aging comes not only possible loneliness, but also meaninglessness and even uselessness.

Psychotherapist Angela Browne-Miller weaves the findings into a philosophical, research-based overview of cross-generational concerns and feelings about aging. Her book opens a window into the hearts and minds of our parents, our peers, and our children as they look at the aging process and at how individuals, society, and families treat aging. Through the sensitive, up-close-and-personal, bird's-eye view of the people interviewed for this book, aging unfolds into a deeply moving experience, one we all share.

Author Biography

Dr. Angela Browne-Miller is the founder of Addiction Stoppers based in northern California, director of the Metaxis Institute based in northern California, and has been a keynote speaker at conferences around the world on addiction, violence, trauma, and behavior change. She is set editor for the Praeger International Collection on Addictions, 4 vols., and is the author of numerous books, including Praeger's To Have and to Hurt: Seeing: Recognizing and Changing, or Escaping, Patterns of Abuse in Intimate Relationships and Raising Thinking Children and Teens: Guiding Mental and Moral Development.