Downsizing : : Confronting Our Possessions in Later Life / / David Ekerdt.
As life unfolds, things tend to accumulate. When older adults undergo health, residential, and marital changes, they will face a reckoning with their lifelong store of possessions—special, ordinary, and forgotten. Such a predicament now confronts tens of millions of Americans as the Baby Boom cohort...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction: Not Forever
- 1. A Convoy of Possessions Across the Life Course
- 2. With Aging, How Large a Convoy?
- 3. Moving Calls the Question
- 4. Contours of House hold Disbandment
- 5. Gifts to Others
- 6. Selling Possessions
- 7. Donations and Discards
- 8. Emotion and Evaluation
- 9. Advice
- Appendix
- Notes
- References
- Index