Women and Aging Today -- Elegance and Resilience

Pat Shapiro

The Privilege of Aging

Award-winning author Pat Shapiro has written a new book entitled The Privilege of Aging, portraits of 12 women from 75 to 102 years old. After looking at the lives of these women who are living active, dynamic lives in their 80's and 90's, she asks what is common to their lives to allow living to advanced ages. She has identified 10 factors that contribute to aging successfully and happily, and that resilience is one of the most important of these factors. These interviews and life stories are varied and fascinating, and they keep the reader's attention in page after page of new insights. This is a generation of Jewish grandmothers like none before them.

Women and aging is a subject of national importance, as can be seen in CNN's articles on Style and Elegant Senior Women. CNN looks at the evolving elegance of older women, emphasizing what Shapiro argues that this generation of seniors is living well, better than seniors did in the past. The CNN stories on women and aging in style can be seen at:

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/29/living/advanced-style-coloring-book/index.html?hpt=li_bn3 and
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/04/27/living/aging-fashion-style






Pat Shapiro, M.S.W., has written extensively on women and aging and gives talks on the subject across the United States. The Privilege of Aging was recently selected by the Jewish Book Council for its Author's Network, and Shapiro has been invited to JBC sponsored Jewish Book Festivals from the Southwest to the East Coast. For more information on the author's work, visit her website at: www.wisewomenalive.com

For more information about The Privilege of Aging, go to: www.gaonbooks.com.

You are invited to launching of The Privilege of Aging at

Collected Works Bookstore

Galisteo and Water Streets in downtown Santa Fe

Wednesday, August 7, at 6:00 pm

The author will be present. 
She will talk about women and aging and sign books.