Identifies eight important stages of caregiving and offers advice to help people navigate each stage, examining the expectations, challenges, and emotional upheaval caregivers will face at each stage and offering advice to help them cope with the demands of caring for another for a sustained period.

"All women face menopause, but, as Gail Sheehy so compellingly reveals in interviews with women from a broad spectrum of economic, ethnic, and racial backgrounds, the passage is seldom easy. Distracting symptoms, confusing medical advice, unsympathetic reactions from loved ones, and the scornful attitudes of society at large often make menopause a lonely and emotionally draining experience." "In this groundbreaking book, Sheehy sets out to erase the...

The newly developing stages of Second Adulthood are vividly dramatized.