Sheehy, Gail.

New passages : mapping your life across time Gail Sheehy. - 1st ed. - New York : Random House, c1995. - xxv, 498 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Sequel to: Passages.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [451]-473) and index.

People are taking longer to grow up and much longer to die. A fifty-year-old woman--who remains free of cancer and heart disease-- can expect to see her ninety-second birthday. Men, too, can expect a dramatically lengthened life span. The old demarcations and descriptions of adulthood--beginning at twenty-one and ending at sixty- five--are hopelessly out of date. In New Passages, Gail Sheehy discovers and maps out a completely new frontier--a Second Adulthood in middle life.

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Adulthood.
Maturation (Psychology)
Socialization.
Middle-aged persons--Psychology.
Middle age--Social aspects.
Aging--Social aspects.
Aging.
Life change events.
Personality development.
Aging.
Life Change Events.
Personality Development.
Socialization.
Adulthood.
Maturation (Psychology)
Middle aged persons--psychology.
Aging--Social aspects.


United States--Social conditions--1980-

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