The Aging Tsunami: Time for a New Metaphor?

Non-Fiction: Chapters/Essays/Monographs
Written By Amanda Barusch

  • Title – The Aging Tsunami: Time for a New Metaphor?

  • Author – Amanda S. Barusch

  • Genre – Sociology, Gerontology

  • Type – Article

  • Publication Date – April 2, 2013

  • Publisher – Taylor & Francis Group

  • Medium – Journal

  • Available at – Taylor & Francis Group

  • Link – https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01634372.2013.787348

  • Synopsis – This (widely cited) editorial argues that the tsunami metaphor is degrading and inaccurate. It should be replaced.

Amanda Barusch

Amanda Barusch has worked as a janitor, exotic dancer, editor, and college professor. She lives in the American West, where she spends as much time as possible on dirt paths. She has an abiding disdain for boundaries and adores ambiguity. Amanda has published eight books of non-fiction, a few poems, and a growing number of short stories. Aging Angry is her first work of creative non-fiction. She uses magical realism to explore deep truths of the human experience in this rapidly changing world.

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