Marion Shoard
A survival guide to later life
Constable Robinson
2004 PB, 644 pp, £9.99, 1 84 119372 0
The past is a foreign country, but so is old age, and as you enter it you feel you are treading unknown territory, leaving your own land behind. You've never been here before.1
This quotation sets the theme for this helpful and practical book. The author of A Survival Guide to Later Life deals sensitively with issues such as moving house, retirement housing and the selection of …