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Abstract
This article, which presents Papell’s personal experience with the aging process, was presented at the annual symposium of the Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups (AASWG, now IASWG) in San Diego in October 2006. Papell describes four ways of thinking, feeling, and doing that have helped her to cope with growing old and facing death. She urges social workers to listen carefully to their elderly clients so they can understand the uniqueness with which each human being deals with the process of aging. In sharing their uniqueness with peers, elderly clients can also find their commonalities with others and can feel supported and perhaps even strengthened in coping with the last stage of life.