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Click here to download the form to add this program to your existing Aging in America registration! To be old in America, some say, is to be invisible. As a nation, we are hesitant to contemplate and discuss—even legislate about—the complexities and challenges of growing older. How does this resistance affect the baby boomers’ parents who are living well into their 80s and 90s? And where does this leave the baby boomer generation as they fast become the new Medicare generation? Who will take care of us as we age? The answer to this last critical question is that we must take care of ourselves—and each other. This National Forum will examine best-selling author and AARP caregiving ambassador Gail Sheehy’s powerful metaphoric concept of the “labyrinth of care,” along with empowering strategies she offers for traversing its twists and turns. Sheehy, a skilled storyteller and expert on life’s many passages, has said that she wants to “put a face on caregiving” by recounting her personal caregiving experiences, telling the stories of others and identifying the stages of the caregiver’s journey. Sheehy will share tales from and guide participants through the eight distinct turns of the labyrinth of caring for ourselves and others. Forum participants will learn useful tools and techniques to imbue the caregiver journey with more ease, possibility and hope.  Gail Sheehy, author of 16 books and countless articles, is world-renowned for the revolutionary Passages, which has been reprinted in 28 languages and was named by a Library of Congress survey as one of the 10 most-influential books of our time. In The Silent Passage, she broke the taboo surrounding menopause. In New Passages and Understanding Men's Passages, she revisited the stages of adult life and mapped out a completely new frontier entitled "second adulthood." And in 2006, in Sex and The Seasoned Woman: Pursuing the Passionate Life, she lent her observant eye to the opportunities and challenges facing women concerning sex, dating, new dreams, divorce, remarriage, and living passionate lives in their second adulthood. In 2010 her new mission is to help a generation navigate the emotional and practical sides of the caregiver role, which faces some 44 million Americans who are taking care of adults at home or long distance.
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ASA National Forum on Caregiving: Walking the Labyrinth With Gail Sheehy