FALL 2003
Listening to Older People's Stories

Our Guest Editor Anne M. Wyatt-Brown   INTRODUCTION: The Power of Stories By Anne M. Wyatt-Brown   The Importance of Stories Where Is the Self in Elder Self-Narratives? Serious listening is required. By Robert Kastenbaum Listening from the Sidelines: The Telling and Retelling of Stories by Centenarians The reality of long life. By Terry L. Mills What Is a Good Story? Help for caregivers of people with dementia. By Jaber F. Gubrium Reading the Story Behind the Story: Context and Content in Stories by People with Dementia "Bill the Fisherman." By Anne Davis Basting Telling and Listening to Stories: Creating a Wisdom Environment for Older People Responsible guidelines for intervention. By Gary M. Kenyon FEATURED ARTICLE: Stories from Rural Elderly African Americans Lessons in strength. By Iris Carlton-LaNey Eloise's Tale: Vital Involvement, Occupation, and Story A 90-year-old woman copes with a fall. By Helen Q. Kivnick, Sharon Stoffel, and Diane Hanlon Storytelling Circles: Stories of Age and Aging Friendships and authority in institutions. By Betsy Pohlman The Importance of Narratives in Stroke Rehabilitation Implications for practice and policy. By Craig Boylstein and Maude R. Rittman Medical Narratives: Diagnosis Goes Low Tech An old technique gains new popularity. By Dinitia Smith
		Autobiographical Narratives Autobiographical Writing and Knowledge of Aging: Whom Do You Trust? The "truth" of personal accounts. By Harry J. Berman Telling Time: Aging and Autobiography How can the complexity of a unique life be conveyed? By Kathleen Woodward What to Do When Being Aged by Culture: Hidden Narratives from the Twentieth-Century Hormone Debacle Whose story is it? By Margaret Morganroth Gullette Fragments of a Mid-Life Rethinking one's own story. By Thomas R. Cole   The Seduction of Stories When time is running out. Fiction and Social Gerontology: The Novelist Stanley Middleton on Aging By Mike Hepworth 'Kate': The Constant Rediscovery of a Poem A woman's message to her caregivers. By Joanna Bornat How Interviewing a Holocaust Survivor Led a Historian into Practicing Therapy without a License An unexpected encounter. By Lawrence N. Powell Memoirist of Ordinary, Yet Extraordinary Elders Memoirs, Inc. By Mary O'Brien Tyrrell

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