Downsizing: Confronting Our Possessions in Later Life by David Ekerdt
English | July 7th, 2020 | ISBN: 023118980X, 0231189818 | 280 pages | EPUB | 1.07 MB
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 passes into retirement and beyond. Despite what a thriving industry of clutter manuals tells us, for most older adults, downsizing is no simple task.