Challenges in Later Life

Sister Mary Threadgold is founder of Sonas, an organisation promoting a positive attitude to ageing. Her book highlights the five areas of life that correspond to human need, namely the physical, social, intellectual, emotional and spiritual. She looks at issues that arise in later life in each of these areas and at possible ways of coping with these difficulties. Each section ends with a way of relating these issues to Christian thinking. Spiritual reminiscence and non-verbal communication are