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Polyamorous Elders
Aging in Open Relationships
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This book is ideal for health care and mental health clinicians, researchers, professionals working with older adults, and polyamorous elders and their loved ones seeking a deeper understanding of this unique community and their relationship dynamics.
This book bridges the gap in research on elders in long-term polyamorous relationships and allows these unusual elders to tell the stories of the unique challenges and significant advantages of their relationships in their own words.
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This book explores the unique group of elders, aged fifty-five and older, who practice some form of consensual nonmonogamy. It covers both the joys and challenges of multiple relationships for elders and explores how their relationships develop and evolve. Polyamorous elders face the complexities of juggling multiple relationships, as well as navigating all the issues of aging: managing medical conditions and disabilities (their own and/or their partnersβ); assuming caregiving responsibilities for aging relatives; grieving the deaths of parents, siblings, and partners; retiring from careers and starting new lives; and potentially moving into some form of senior living.
Drawing from her extensive clinical and personal experience working with this population, Kathy Labriola provides anecdotes from polyamorous eldersβ lives, including the constellation of relationships surrounding each individual, couple, or triad. This guide will help health care and mental health clinicians, researchers, and professionals, as well as polyamorous elders and their loved ones, better understand the concerns and diverse lifestyles of this population to better represent and support them.
Polyamorous Elders is an invaluable resource for those interested in understanding and supporting the lifestyle choices of elder individuals who cherish multiple relationships.
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Reviewers praise the book for its compassionate and thoroughly researched approach. Carling Mashinter, a registered psychotherapist, commends it as a comprehensive and evidence-based guide that equips practitioners to support polyamorous clients effectively. Rosie Wilby highlights its accessibility and thoughtful treatment of polyamory. The text is noted as engaging, suitable for researchers, clinicians, and students interested in sex, aging, and diverse relationship structures.
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ISBN: 9781538169278
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 15 December 2022
Country: United States
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 14.0mm
Width: 177.0mm
Height: 255.0mm
Weight: 472g
Pages: 352
About the Author
Kathy Labriola is a counselor, nurse, and hypnotherapist in a private practice in Berkeley, California, providing affordable mental health services to people in nontraditional relationships for the past thirty years, including the polyamorous, kink, LGBTQ, and sex worker communities. She is the author of Love in Abundance: A Counselorβs Advice on Open Relationships, The Jealousy Workbook, and The Polyamory Break-Up Book: Causes, Prevention, and Survival. She has been a political activist and a card-carrying bisexual and polyamorist for fifty years. She is "extra crunchy" and lives in a housing cooperative, where she bikes, raises chickens, and grows organic vegetables. Her personal website is www.kathylabriola.com.
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