Getting Good at Getting Older

by Laura Geller, Richard Siegel, Paul Palnik (Illustrator)

Getting Good at Getting Older is a bedside companion, a portable best friend, and a baedeker of essential resources for anyone smart enough to age mindfully rather than just let it happen to them. - Letty Cottin Pogrebin, founding editor of Ms. magazine and author of Getting Over Getting Older


We transformed society in the 60's and 70's, through the civil rights movement, the evolution of feminism, and the sexual revolution. We raised our voices, refused to sit down, and in the process, changed the way the world saw young people.

We aren't young anymore. But we are still revolutionary. We are confronting and challenging assumptions about aging, by living longer, being more active than our parents and grandparents, and simply doing things differently. And in the process, we are changing the way the world sees older people.
Getting Good at Getting Older is a tour for all of us of a certain age through the resources and skills we need to navigate the years between maturity and old age. It brings humor, warmth, and more than 4,000 years of Jewish experience to the question of how to shape this new stage of life.

310 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 8, 2019

Reviews

[Gary I. Miller · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is filled with a lot of cute slogans, the kind you see put up in workplaces by people who don't do the work - those who do not do the work, but put up slogan signs to inspire the real people doing the work. It was filled with a lot of psycho babel quotes from a lot of people, that did not seem to string together in any kind of logical way. I could not get into this, let alone finish the book - life is too short to attempt finishing this. It was filled with hundreds of definitions of things and quotes that just didn't fit together. Also boring. I wish I could get a refund on the purchase price.

[Rae Simpson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Minuteman. Workbook format, large pages, sketches, exercises. By Rabbi Laura Geller and husband Richard Siegel, both in Jewish leadership. He died before the book was finished. Chapters on getting good at gaining wisdom, getting along, getting better, getting ready, giving back, giving away.

[Christine · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book once a year, concentrating on where I am in life and studying those chapters deeper. I always find good ideas and it gives me other ideas to try. Since I live far from any city some don't work in the way discussed in the book but with a little creativity I can create my own.

[Alanna Berger · Rating 5 out of 5]

very practical resource guide

This book puts together all in place everything you need to know about leaving behind your legacy. I wish my parents would have done even half of this.

[Christine · Rating 5 out of 5]

read this! and read it again every 10 years after you turn 50

This is a great reminder of life and it’s realities. An amazing mix of humour, the sacred and serious stuff of life

[Mitzi · Rating 2 out of 5]

Good book of information for those in the 40-50 yr old bracket.