We certainly anticipate a longer lifespan. We have higher expectations for ourselves. Now, the baby boomer generation has come to this life stage, and we're very different than our parents' generation. And so I have much more empathy with her in terms of things like being afraid to break a bone, walking very carefully on the ice, becoming a much more cautious person, having some memory issues.Īnd then the other thing, of course, is I was writing about my mother's generation in comparison to my baby boomer generation. I'm the age my mother was when she was in her rapid decline in health. It was also a generation that was very unassertive in their relationship to authority. And she was of a generation where the main way of coping was stoicism, and there was very little attempt to discuss pain in any way. She was ill and in a hospital a long time. My father died before he had a chance to age, but my mother did age and had many of the problems of aging people. PIPHER: Well, of course, I see things a lot differently now than when I was younger and sometimes frustrated by my aging mother. And I'm just interested in the shift in perspective from the second book that we spoke about - about helping people who are aging, like your parents - to this book where you're writing about your own cohort and yourself. This book is about aging yourself and the issues that other aging women like yourself deal with. So it's like the second book was about dealing with parents or grandparents who are aging and needing help. The second time was a book about people who are aging and the younger people who care for them. The first time was for "Reviving Ophelia," your book about teenagers and teenage girls and the stresses that they go through. Her new book is called "Women Rowing North."
At the University of Nebraska, she taught psychology of women and sex roles and gender. When Pipher was a therapist, she worked primarily with women. When Pipher was taking care of her aging and sick mother, she wrote the book "Another Country" about the issues faced by adult children caring for parents. Twenty-five years ago when Pipher's daughter was a teenager, she wrote the bestseller "Reviving Ophelia" about the stresses and anxieties faced by teenage girls. Her new book is about finding new strategies for a new stage of life in which your body is changing you may no longer be doing the things you built your identity on, like pursuing your career or raising children and you may be losing people you love. In the 21st century, women often consider themselves middle-aged well into their 60s until they suffer a major health crisis or the loss of someone they love. She writes that chronological age is not as important as health.
My guest Mary Pipher has written a new book about women in their 60s and early 70s who, like her, are transitioning from middle age to old age.
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