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101 Things That Piss Me Off: And Thousands of Other Things That Suck Just As Much
Par Herb W. Reich. 2017
Complaining, psychologists assert, is good for your health. It acts as a relief valve to help dispel the pent up…
energy generated by our daily frustrations, personal peeves, and life-long vexations. Now curmudgeons, gripers, grousers, and complainers have their own place to discard their tension! 101 Things That Piss Me Off is the manifesto guaranteed to help even the crabbiest soul let loose. Here is just a sample list of items guaranteed to piss anyone off:•Aggressive drivers who give the finger•People who graduated from assertiveness courses•Elevator music•Having the best senators money can buy•Appliances that fail the day after the warranty expires•Nineteen-year-old tech millionaires•People who are more inept than we give them credit forThe Little Book of Restorative Justice for Older Adults: Finding Solutions to the Challenges of an Aging Population (Justice and Peacebuilding)
Par Julie Friesen, Wendy Meek. 2017
Exploring Restorative Justice Practices as a Compelling Response to the Challenges of an Aging Population As our global population ages,…
conflicts and difficult conversations emerge. How will older adults decide who will make end-of-life health and financial decisions for them? When will dad need to move out of his home and into long-term care? We can’t have mom living with us anymore because it’s just too hard. Why are my children fighting over where I will live? Why is my son taking money from me? These are challenging scenarios that ever-increasing numbers of people are facing. Sometimes these difficulties are discussed in catastrophic terms:Untenable health-care costs Exhausted pension funds Crises in home-care and long-term housing And other concerns Certainly, there are some reasons to worry; however, the challenges facing older adults can be an opportunity for positive change. The Little Book of Restorative Justice for Older Adults is about providing safe and respectful processes to assist in resolving conflict and addressing abuse involving older adults, families, caregivers, and communities. Authors Julie Friesen and Wendy Meek explore ideas to help connect and support people, building on the strengths and capacities of older adults and their families, in order to strengthen communities. Restorative justice dialogues help older adults and their families talk constructively and safely to find ways to move forward together.Necessary Conversations: Between Adult Children And Their Aging Parents
Par Gerald Kaufman. 2014
In this timely book, family counselors Gerald and Marlene Kaufman urge adult children and their parents to have direct conversations…
about the decisions that lie ahead as parents age. The Kaufmans suggest that families use their parents' retirement as the benchmark for having the first discussion about their parents' plans for the next phase of their lives. The Kaufmans point out that most families wait until they're faced with a crisis before having these conversations. The big questions facing aging adults are: 1. Where should they live as they become less able to care for a property? 2. How will they manage their finances so that they are as prepared as possible to meet their needs as they age? Are they ready to invite one or more of their children to become their partners in making financial decisions? 3. Are they ready to invite one or more of their children to become their partners in making their medical decisions? 4. How can parents and children work together in determining when it's no longer safe or wise for the parents to drive? 5. What end-of-life decisions should parents be prepared to make? What is the best way to have those discussions? Necessary Conversations is filled with stories and examples from many families, most with different life circumstances, but all facing these same issues. The chapters end with "Getting Started," a list of suggestions for action, as well as "Questions" for focusing on practical outcomes to the discussions. The book includes a series of exhibits-from a "Needs Assessment for Caregivers" to a "Medications and Supplements List" to a "Driving Contract and Checklist." A thoughtful and useful guide to a life stage that's often dreaded and muddled through. Gerald W. Kaufman and L. Marlene Kaufman have been family counselors for nearly 40 years. This book grew out of a seminar they were asked to lead with their adult daughter and her husband.Intimacy and Ageing: New Relationships in Later Life (Ageing in a Global Context)
Par Torbjörn Bildtgård, Peter Öberg. 2017
To begin new relationships in later life is increasingly common in large parts of the Western world. This timely book…
addresses the gap in knowledge about late life repartnering and provides a comprehensive map of the changing landscape of late life intimacy. Part of the Ageing in a Global Context series, the book examines the changing structural conditions of intimacy and ageing in late modernity. How do longer lives, changing norms and new technologies affect older people’s relationship careers, their attitudes to repartnering and in the formation of new relationships? Which forms do these new unions take? What does a new intimate relationship offer older men and women and what are the consequences for social integration? What is the role and meaning of sex? By introducing a gains-perspective the book challenges stereotypes of old age as a period of loss and decline. It also challenges the image of older people as conservative, and instead presents them as an avant-garde that often experiment with new ways of being together.Suddenly Senior: The Funny Thing About Getting Older
Par Tom Hay. 2016
You might be getting a bit thin on top, plump at the middle and creaky around the knees, but that…
doesn’t mean you’ve forgotten how to enjoy yourself! This collection of witty quotations, light-hearted yarns and cheerful jokes will help you celebrate getting older with a smile on your face and a twinkle in your wrinkle.You're Not Old, You're Just Not That Young: The Funny Thing About Getting Older
Par Harvey Little. 2018
You might not be a spring chicken any more, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t keep on strutting your stuff!…
This collection of witty quotations, light-hearted yarns and cheerful jokes will help you stay young at heart, and see the funny side of getting older with a smile on your face.Senior Moments: The Perfect Gift for Those Who Are Getting On a Bit
Par Freddie Green. 2015
You know you’re having a senior moment when…… you need a pen and paper just to order a round of…
drinks.Getting old? Join the club! This upbeat collection of all-too-common mishaps, sprinkled with quotes from wise old sages, will have you nodding in agreement and chuckling at all your lovable foibles.So you’re a grandparent! One of the most magical roles you’ll ever have – but also one of the messiest.…
But never fear: this indispensable handbook is here to guide you through the pleasures and pitfalls of grandparenthood, and, most importantly, teach you how to keep the grandkids quiet while you catch up on your nap-time.So you’re a grandparent! One of the most magical roles you’ll ever have – but also one of the messiest.…
But never fear: this indispensable handbook is here to guide you through the pleasures and pitfalls of grandparenthood, and, most importantly, teach you how to keep the grandkids quiet while you catch up on your nap-time.Suddenly Senior: The Funny Thing About Getting Older
Par Tom Hay. 2016
You might be getting a bit thin on top, plump at the middle and creaky around the knees, but that…
doesn’t mean you’ve forgotten how to enjoy yourself! This collection of witty quotations, light-hearted yarns and cheerful jokes will help you celebrate getting older with a smile on your face and a twinkle in your wrinkle.Alone across the Arctic: One Woman's Epic Journey by Dog Team
Par Pam Flowers, Ann Dixon. 2001
Alone across the Arctic tells the gripping adventure story of Pam Flowers's solo trip across the North American arctic coast…
with her eight sled dogs. Inspired by Knud Rasmussen's pioneer 1923-24 expedition along the same route, Pam is the first woman to traverse the arctic coast alone. Pam's astounding year-long journey over 2,500 miles of frozen wilderness exposed her to heart-stopping perils, from intense blizzards and melting pack ice to a frightening polar bear encounter. With storytelling and journal extracts, she offers powerful insights into the challenges and rewards of such an epic achievement.Anthropological Perspectives on Aging
Par Britteny M. Howell and Ryan P. Harrod. 2023
An in-depth and wide-ranging approach to the study of older adults in society Taking a holistic approach to…
the study of aging, this volume uses biological, archaeological, medical, and cultural perspectives to explore how older adults have functioned in societies around the globe and throughout human history. As the world’s population over 65 years of age continues to increase, this wide-ranging approach fills a growing need for both academics and service professionals in gerontology, geriatrics, and related fields.Case studies from the United States, Tibet, Turkey, China, Nigeria, and Mexico provide examples of the ways age-related changes are influenced by environmental, genetic, sociocultural, and political-economic variables. Taken together, they help explain how the experience of aging varies across time and space. These contributions from noted anthropological scholars examine evolutionary and biological understandings of human aging, the roles of elders in various societies, issues of gender and ageism, and the role of chronic illness and “successful aging” among older adults.This volume highlights how an anthropology of aging can illustrate how older adults adapt to shifting life circumstances and environments, including changes to the ways in which individuals and families care for them. The research in Anthropological Perspectives on Aging can also help researchers, students, and practitioners reach across disciplines to address age discrimination and help improve health outcomes throughout the life course.The United Nations Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing: Global Perspectives
Par Marvin Formosa and Mala Kapur Shankardass. 2023
The United Nations Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA) offers a bold new agenda for handling the issue…
of ageing in the 21st-century. It focuses on three priority areas: older persons and development; advancing health and well-being into old age; and ensuring enabling and supportive environments. This book brings together global perspectives on the MIPAA and focusses on and assesses the success and failures of governments to implement its recommendations. Despite its pivotal importance in international ageing policy, the MIPAA has been relatively neglected by academics in their writings and studies. This book mitigates this analytical and empirical cavity. Each chapter focuses on one specific geographical region and addresses five key themes: National ageing situation; Twenty years of MIPAA; Ensuring ageing with dignity; Healthy and active ageing in a sustainable world; and Priorities for the future. It presents an overall summary of the findings, future challenges and opportunities related to ageing, recommendations for future actions to be taken, and policy adjustments needed. The authors also present lessons that were learnt from managing the impact of COVID-19 on older people, together with an outlook on the most immediate priorities for the future so that the recommendations in the MIPAA are achieved in post-COVID-19 and sustainable ethical scenarios. An important contribution towards the advancement of ageing policy, the book will be indispensable to students and researchers of gerontology, ageing, and health. It will also be of interest to policy makers, geriatricians, dementia care specialists, social policy makers responsible for ensuring active and healthy ageing, and all public sector departments which have specific responsibilities towards improving the quality of life of older adults.Safeguarding Social Security for Future Generations: Leaving a Legacy in an Aging Society (Aging and Society)
Par W. Andrew Achenbaum. 2023
This book offers a unique multigenerational approach to saving Social Security. Public programs have adapted to societal aging, but fears…
overwhelm hopes for Social Security’s future prospects. Conservatives want to privatize operations that liberals seek to expand. Younger workers are happy that Social Security protects their elders, but most do not expect benefits when needed. Achenbaum reframes conflicting perspectives and offers new models of respectful transgenerational dialogue that can mobilize pragmatic reforms. Designed for use in gerontology, social work, and public policy courses, Safeguarding Social Security for Future Generations offers measured hope for leaving a legacy that safeguards the common good.Ethnicity and Old Age: Expanding our Imagination (Ageing in a Global Context)
Par Sandra Torres. 2019
Winner of the Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Award 2021. Part of the Ageing in a Global Context series, this book…
proposes a new research agenda for scholarship that focuses on ethnicity, race and old age. It argues that in a time of increased international migration, population ageing and ethno-cultural diversity, scholarly imagination must be expanded as current research frameworks are becoming obsolete. By bringing attention to the way that ethnicity and race have been addressed in research on ageing and old age, with a focus on health inequalities, health and social care, intergenerational relationships and caregiving, the book proposes how research can be developed in an ethnicity astute and diversity informed manner.Social Divisions and Later Life: Difference, Diversity and Inequality
Par Chris Gilleard, Paul Higgs. 2020
As the population ages, this book reveals how divides that are apparent through childhood and working life change and are…
added to in later life. Two internationally renowned experts in ageing look beyond longstanding factors like class, gender and ethnicity to explore new social divisions, including contrasting states of physical fitness and mental health. They show how differences in health and frailty are creating fresh inequalities in later life, with significant implications for the future of our ageing societies. This accessible overview of social divisions is essential reading for those interested in the sociology of ageing and its differences, diversities and inequalities.Chair Yoga for Seniors: Stretches and Poses that You Can Do Sitting Down at Home
Par Lynn Lehmkuhl. 2020
One of the biggest concerns among aging men and women is the fear of falling. Chair yoga, or &“yoga while…
seated,&” allows anyone to experience all of the benefits of an exercise program without being afraid. In Chair Yoga for Seniors, registered yoga practitioner and instructor Lynn Lehmkuhl offers readers easy-to-follow yoga positions and stretches that can be done at home, while sitting down. Chair Yoga for Seniors outlines the physical and mental benefits that come with practicing yoga daily, and provides instructions for numerous different exercises, including: Full body warm upsJoint rollsBeginner routinesIntermediate routinesExpert routinesFull body cool downsThe routines found in Chair Yoga for Seniors can help readers make daily exercise a reality and provide invaluable benefits such as increased energy and a boost in confidence."This will cast a spell on fans of Cheryl Strayed and Glennon Doyle." - Publishers WeeklyBetween Two Kingdoms meets Wild.…
In this heart wrenching and inspirational memoir a woman and her mother, who is suffering from dementia, embark on a road trip through national parks, revisiting the memories, and the mountains, that made them who they are.Steph Jagger lost her mother before she lost her. Her mother, stricken with an incurable disease that slowly erases all sense of self, struggles to remember her favorite drink, her favorite song, and—perhaps most heartbreaking of all—Steph herself. Steph watches as the woman who loved and raised her slips away before getting the chance to tell her story, and so Steph makes a promise: her mother will walk it and she will write it.Too aware of her mother’s waning memory, Steph proposes that the two take a camping trip out to Montana—which her mother, on the urging of Steph’s father, agrees to embark upon. An adventure full of horseback riding, hiking, and “tenting” out West quickly turns into one woman’s reflection on childhood, motherhood, personhood—and what it means to love someone who doesn’t quite remember the person she spent her lifetime becoming.A staggeringly beautiful examination of how stories are passed down through generations and from Mother Nature, Everything Left to Remember brings us the wisdom of who our memories make us under the constellations of the vast Montana sky.No matter your parents&’ age or stage of life, this comprehensive guide walks you step-by-step through developing a flexible, proactive…
plan that will allow you to make the most informed decisions for your parents&’ well-being—and your own.Millions of Americans are in an active caregiver role or will be in one in the future, yet few have a solid plan for the inevitable challenges of aging.Whether your parents are in their 60s or their 90s, and whether they have years of health ahead of them or already need more support, Successfully Navigating Your Parents&’ Senior Years provides the framework and information you need to prepare for and handle with confidence the changes to come.The responsibility of caring for an aging loved one is often daunting—and when trouble hits, the sudden barrage of questions you face can be overwhelming. Have your parents executed their Advance Directives? Do you know what to look for in a senior community (and how to ensure a spot is available when you need it)? If your parents want to stay in their home, what can you do to ensure their safety?Certified aging life care specialist and CEO of Senior Living Strategies Star Bradbury draws on her 25 years of experience in senior living to bring you an up-to-date, comprehensive guide to navigating the tricky waters ahead—starting with putting a plan in place now that maximizes your parents&’ independence while providing them with the support they need.Successfully Navigating Your Parents&’ Senior Years covers:How to bring up sensitive topics with your aging parentsSteps you can take to keep your parents safely independent in their own homes for longerRed flags that indicate your parents may need more helpSenior living options and the key questions to ask in choosing any kind of retirement communityAlternative living arrangements to consider for aging parents, such as senior roommates, cohousing, and/or niche retirement communitiesHow to get help paying for your parents&’ medical care (you have more options than you think!)Legal and financial documents to have on hand in case of a sudden medical emergencyInsider tips, helpful checklists, and moreDon&’t wait for a crisis to begin planning for the future. Successfully Navigating Your Parents&’ Senior Years is an indispensable blueprint that will give you the tools and knowledge you need to advocate for your parents when they need you most.30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans
Par Karl Pillemer. 2011
More than one thousand extraordinary Americans share their stories and the wisdom they have gained on living, loving, and finding…
happiness. After a chance encounter with an extraordinary ninety-year-old woman, renowned gerontologist Karl Pillemer began to wonder what older people know about life that the rest of us don't. His quest led him to interview more than one thousand Americans over the age of sixty-five to seek their counsel on all the big issues-- children, marriage, money, career, aging. Their moving stories and uncompromisingly honest answers often surprised him. And he found that he consistently heard advice that pointed to these thirty lessons for living. Here he weaves their personal recollections of difficulties overcome and lives well lived into a timeless book filled with the hard-won advice these older Americans wish someone had given them when they were young. Like This I Believe, StoryCorps's Listening Is an Act of Love, and Tuesdays with Morrie, 30 Lessons for Living is a book to keep and to give. Offering clear advice toward a more fulfilling life, it is as useful as it is inspiring.