An easy to use, straightforward guide for helping older people cope with problems associated with transitions, trauma, and stress. An optimistic work designed to make counseling the elderly easier, more successful, and more rewarding. Helps counselors, clergy, senior center outreach workers, therapists, family physicians, helping professionals, psychologists, MFCCs, LCSWs, mental health centers, hospital social service departments, and social workers who deal with the situations that challenge older people.