the Script..." (1980) "If I Had a Billion..." (1981) "Caregiving: A Woman's Issue" (1985) "Three Caregivers Tell Their Stories: Seriously Near the Breaking Point" (1985) Women Take Care: The Consequences of Caregiving in Today's Society (1987, with Laurie Shields) Personal life and legacy Innes married Sidney Arnold Burke in 1938; they later divorced. She married fellow activist Joseph Sommers in 1949; they adopted a son, and divorced in 1972. "Undoubtedly the divorce was, in part, my own awakening," she later recalled. Sommers died from cancer in 1985 at the age of 71, in Oakland. Some of her papers are held in the San Diego State University Libraries. The Institute for Health and Aging at the University of California, San Francisco established the Tish Sommers Senior Scholars program to honor her; it supports the work of older graduate and postdoctoral students working to improve the lives of older women. In 1991, a biography of her was published, titled Tish Sommers, Activist: and the Founding of the Older Women's League. References External links A 1982 video interview with Tish Sommers from KPBS television, on Internet Archive American feminist writers American women's rights activists 1914 births 1985 deaths