Changing Lanes... A guide to help when aging, illness or disability forces us into the Slow Lane - Book Review

Book Review

Changing Lanes...

by Michael Creurer

Changing Lanes... A guide to help when aging, illness or disability forces us into the Slow Lane.

Changing Lanes, by Michael Creurer offers valuable psycho-educational concepts combined with narratives about the author and his disabled peers. This information helps people cope with the myriad of emotional issues that are presented as people experience physical challenges which are presented as we age, experience illness or physical disability.

Contents

Part One - lane changes

Introduction

Changing Lanes

Grieving Our Losses

An illness within an illness

Choosing the Way We Feel

Alone but not Lonely

Creating a New Life

Part Two - the slow lane

Introduction

Life in the Slow Lane

Making Comparisons

Relationships

The Dark side

Living in the Present

Enjoying Life in the Slow Lane

Part Three - a new lane

New Directions

Purpose

Finding Meaning

Hope

A Closing Thought

The book is 88 pages plus cover. Post Polio groups, Arthritis Centres, the MS Society, Disability groups and Senior’s facilities are purchasing copies for their libraries and reading rooms for the benefit of clients and health care professionals.

Changing Lanes is available at a few select bookstores or it can be ordered from us directly. The book sells for $12.95 Can $10.95 US (if ordered before October 30, 1998 we will waive the usual $3.00 mailing charge).

Thank you for your time, Marjorie Rogers
E-mail: changing@pacificcoast.net
SFC inc
Box 5664
Victoria, B.C., Canada V8R 6S4