Enjoying Your Best Years [antikvár]

PrefaceWhen first the suggestion was put to me that I should write a book dealing with the problem of aging and the aged, the idea had little appeal. But on further thought, I realized that the considerable experience, both personal and vicarious, that I had had in that area might be valuable to others, and should be shared. Since I have almoist attained octogenarian status, I am able to have a very real empathy with those in like case.Life has brought me into intimate contact with many aging people, both in my own family circle and in the course of missionary administration. My wife and I had aged parents living with us for a number of years. When he was eighty, my father was struck by a streetcar and lay in our home in a coma for two years. After a period of illness my first wife died of cancer. Some time afterward I married again. My second wife contracted multiple sclerosis and was ill for more than two years before she was called home.As director of a large and long-established missionary society, inevitably I had considerable contact with the aging problems of retired members. A preaching ministry of more than fifty years has also given me insight into both the joys and the disabilities of the aged. I desire to share both the results of my own observation and, more importantly, what I have