The Lioness in WinterWhen she started working with the aged more than forty years ago, Ann Burack Weiss began storing the knowledge and skills she thought would help when she got old herself. It was not until she hit her mid seventies that she realized she had packed sneakers to climb Mount Everest, not anticipating the crevices and chasms that constitute the rocky terrain of old age. The professional gerontological and social work literature offered little help, so she