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Editorial| Volume 17, ISSUE 2, P96, February 01, 2016

The “Aging Other”

  • Tracy Chippendale
    Correspondence
    Address correspondence to Tracy Chippendale, PhD, OTR/L, Department of Occupational Therapy, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York University, Pless Hall, 82 Washington Square East, 6th floor, New York, NY 10003.
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    Department of Occupational Therapy, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York University, New York, NY
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Published:December 16, 2015DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2015.11.010
      Early in my clinical career I remember walking into the rehabilitation department of the skilled nursing facility where I was working with an 85-year-old patient who announced when she entered the room, “look at all these old people!” This was the beginning of my experience with what I will refer to as “the aging other.”
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      Reference

        • Vaillant G.E.
        Aging Well.
        Little, Brown and Company, New York2002