When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple (1991), edited by Sandra Martz, is a collection of prose, poetry, and photographs that explores the aging process in women in a positive light.

Barbara Pym's novel Quartet in Autumn (1977) explores with wry humor and gentle irony the lives of four single people in their sixties. In the face of solitude and aging, they do their best to construct meaningful lives.

William Shakespeare's King Lear (1605-06) is a harrowing play about an eighty-year-old king who is cast out by two of his daughters, and through extreme suffering finally attains a measure of wisdom and redemption.

"Today Is Sunday," one of the stories in Peter Ho Davies' collection Equal Love (2000), is interesting because it revolves around a situation that occurs twice in The Stone Angel, when a character pretends to be a cherished relative of a delirious or dying person in order to offer the sick person comfort.

The Jest of God (1966), the second novel in Margaret Laurence's Manawaka series, is about Rachel Cameron, a lonely teacher who eventually learns how to come to terms with her anxiety and confusion.

Aging 00/01, 13th ed. (1999), by Harold Cox, is a collection of press articles that discuss a variety of problems and solutions related to aging in today's society.

Betty Friedan's The Fountain of Age(1994) presents a new look at how society views aging. It shows that myths of inevitable decline are outdated, and that life can continue to be full of growth and happiness even as people age.