Providence Publishing: Embracing Aging

Ruth Garrett—Embracing Aging:Discovering Fulfillment through Coping with Life's Changes • ISBN: 978-1-57736-425-2 • $16.95 • 256 pages • softcover • 6x9 • Imprint: PHP

In her unblinking book, Dr. Ruth Garrett shares her deep perspective on the highs and lows of growing older. Never one to shun reality, she draws on her long and varied experience in the field to lead the reader through the pitfalls and hazards of aging. She is emphatic in her insistence that the reality of aging goes beyond the individual person to the family, and indeed to the community at large. Each is a resource that demands address. Dr. Garrett is the expert guide.
Walter M. Bortz II, MD Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine

The pursuit of wellness in aging is the holy grail of gerontology. Ruth is one of the greatest examples and role models I know in this regard.
James S. Powers, MD Geriatrician, Associate Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Dr. Ruth Garrett writes passionately and clearly about our choices on how to age. She writes with the same enthusiasm and depth of knowledge that she lives her personal and professional lives. This book gives those of us who are fortunate enough to work with her a glimpse into her life and how she became the happy, warm, enthusiastic woman and advocate for aging that she is. Those who don’t know her have a wonderful opportunity to not only read about her past experiences, but will hopefully wake up to her admonitions to prepare for your harvest years.
Gary Duncan, MD Neurologist, Vanderbilt/Meharry Medical Colleges

The programs Ruth Garrett has developed for Nashville universities and communities embody a profound understanding of aging, longevity, and society.
William Thomas, MD Founder of the Greenhouse Housing and the Eden Alternative

Ruth Garrett’s book is a meditation on aging from the inside out, and a book that provokes all of us to deeper thinking about our future selves. A wonderful and human approach to a subject of universal interest.
Harry R. Moody, PhD Director of Academic Affairs, AARP

I would recommend that anyone over age fifty-five read this book.
M. Sidani, MD Geriatrician, Meharry Medical Family Medicine

Bravo! Dr. Garrett has once again demonstrated her groundswell of knowledge in the field of gerontology. This short treatise of her life and fascinating worldview on aging is a must read for both older and younger adults interested in the topic.
Samuel K. Williams III, MD Internal Medicine Resident, Boston University Medical Center