If I Live to Be 100 or Coping with Chronic Illness

If I Live to Be 100: Lessons from the Centenarians

Author: Neenah Ellis

If I Live to Be 100 is based on One Hundred Years of Stories, a series of profiles of American centenarians, which Ellis produced and which aired in 2000 on NPR's Morning Edition. There are now more 100-year-olds alive than at any other time in history, and longevity studies are finding many of them are active, healthy and engaged with the world around them. Neenah Ellis set out to meet these people and to hear what insights, memories, wisdom and just plain common sense tips they have to offer. What she's found will surprise you. The original radio profiles will be intercut with Ellis's reading of her book. If I Live to be 100 is not simply a transcript of the radio series, but about how the experience of meeting and talking with these amazing centenarians affected the author.

Publishers Weekly

For the National Public Radio series One Hundred Years of Stories, broadcast two years ago, Ellis interviewed Americans at least 100 years old some of them ailing or confused in their thinking, others completely coherent, lively and full of fascinating tales from the past and insightful wisdom gleaned from a century of living. The poignancy of a prolific writer and Hollywood veteran who can't remember enough to participate in the interview is offset by a woman who lives alone, still rows her own boat and occasionally skinny-dips, and by a man who marries for the third time at 103. Ellis reveals little of her own life here, and withholds any intimate introspection when, for example, a 101-year-old law professor describes his regret at spending so much time on his work rather than having a family and points out that Ellis's childless lifestyle is similar. On the other hand, she abandons straight journalism by indulging in a long tangent about "limbic resonance," or getting absorbed in someone's telling of a story. She concludes that "emotional connection with another person is all that will make you happy," but she tells readers this rather than letting her interviewees speak for themselves. If Ellis had stuck with the subjects' own voices and fleshed out their stories in more detail, this might have been a powerful oral history of America in the 20th century. Instead, it reads like a radio show brief quotes with a few sound bites of editorialization. Agent, Jonathon Lazear. (Sept.) Forecast: National publicity, a radio campaign and NPR sponsorship and author interviews will put this book on older readers' radar. It should sell well as a gift book come the holidays. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

New interesting book: O 5S Guia de Bolso

Coping with Chronic Illness: Overcoming Powerlessness

Author: Judith Fitzgerald Miller

Completely rewritten to include the most recent research and nursing strategies, the 3rd edition expands nurses' perceptions of persons with long-term health problems in a way that emphasizes patient and family power resources. The book includes nursing assessment, diagnosis, interventions, conceptual models, and related research.

Booknews

Examines theories related to coping and powerlessness, and presents creative nursing strategies and a prototypical plan for decreasing powerlessness in chronically ill people and their families. This third edition is rewritten to include the most recent research and nursing strategies, with an emphasis on patient and family power resources. New to this edition are chapters on stress and coping, chronic sorrow, courage in chronic illness, and empowering people with AIDS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

Pt. I	Current Status	1
1	Client Power Resources	3
2	Analysis of Coping with Illness	21
3	Development of the Concept of Powerlessness: A Nursing Diagnosis	55
Pt. II	Vulnerabilities Across the Life Span	89
4	Stress and Coping: Psychoneuroimmunology	91
5	Chronic Sorrow in Long-Term Illness Across the Life Span	125
6	Courage in Young Adults with Long-Term Health Concerns	145
7	Middlescent Obese Women: Overcoming Powerlessness	165
8	Powerlessness in Elderly Persons: Preventing Hopelessness	191
Pt. III	Coping with Specific Chronic Health Problems	213
9	Powerlessness in Persons with End-Stage Renal Disease	215
10	Profiles of Locus of Control and Coping in Persons with Peripheral Vascular Disease	247
11	Energy Deficits in Chronically Ill Persons with Arthritis: Fatigue	265
12	Adjustment, Coping Resources, and Care of the Client with Multiple Sclerosis	293
13	Coping with Chronic Lung Disease: Maintaining Quality of Life	327
14	Empowering Persons Affected by Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome	377
Pt. IV	Selected Nursing Strategies	435
15	Literature: A Dimension of Nursing Therapeutics	437
16	Imagery as a Means of Coping	467
17	Facilitating Behavior Change in Chronically Ill Persons	481
18	Enhancing Self-Esteem	505
19	Inspiring Hope	523
	Index	547