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How to age in place: planning for a happy, independent, and financially secure retirement
Par Mary A. Languirand, Robert F. Bornstein. 2013
Clinical psychologists' guide to postretirement living emphasizes staying in one's home. They offer advice on financial planning, universal home design,…
transportation issues, health care, and accessibility of services, and provide checklists and worksheets. 2013Is this thing on?: a computer handbook for late bloomers, technophobes, and the kicking & screaming
Par Abby Stokes, Abigail Stokes. 2011
Computer instructor presents concepts and techniques for computer novices. Covers subjects such as purchasing a computer, establishing Internet access, and…
working with iPads and mobile devices. Also offers tips on online banking, shopping, and using social media. 2011Never say die: the myth and marketing of the new old age
Par Susan Jacoby. 2011
Social critic and author of The Age of American Unreason (DB 66150) paints a pessimistic, yet realistic, overview of old…
age. Combines social, economic, and historical analyses as well as personal experience to portray the issues--with special attention to Alzheimer's disease--that aging baby boomers will encounter. 2011Writer recounts visiting a nursing home with her therapy dog, Hannah, a Labrador retriever. Describes effects of Hannah's presence, which…
soothed residents and elicited personal accounts of life, love, and growing older. Interweaves patients' experiences with those of author's family and meditations on aging. River Teeth Literary NF Prize. 2005Stages of senior care: your step-by-step guide to making the best decisions
Par Lori Hogan, Paul Hogan. 2010
Guide for families who are making decisions about senior care. Evaluates available options, including retirement communities, adult day-care centers, assisted-living…
facilities, nursing homes, hospice, and in-home caregivers. Discusses bereavement and covers funerals, finances, and estate planning. 2010Time magazine columnist describes the family dynamics that come into play when parents age. Discusses the "twilight transition," the time…
when the family in which siblings grew up ends and they become the oldest generation in a clan. Russo uses case studies from her research to highlight salient topics. Some strong language. 2010Gracious uncertainty: faith in the second half of life
Par Jane Sigloh. 2018
Reflections on issues concerning everyone, but which intensify with age: loving more fully, dealing with loss, finding consolation, and having…
the courage to gaze (even while shaking inwardly) at the nearing reality of death. The author, a retired Episcopal priest, blends personal stories, Scriptural insights, and lessons drawn from years in ministry into insightful reflections on the beauty and challenges of agingShelved: a memoir of aging in America
Par Sue Matthews Petrovski. 2018
The author discusses the benefits and deficits of American for-profit elder care, while reflecting on her move to a senior…
living community with her husband. Drawing on extensive research to demonstrate the cultural value of elders and their potential for leading vital, creative lives, she offers a cogent, informed critique of elder care options and delivers compelling suggestions for the transformation of the elder care systemLike trees walking: in the second half of life
Par Jane Sigloh, James Sigloh. 2007
A retired Episcopal priest, Jane Sigloh presents with both reverent awe and irreverent honesty the facts and fantasies of growing…
old. She interweaves the insights of Scripture, poetry, fiction, and philosophy into her memories and reflections on the challenges and opportunities that maturity brings. With fresh perspective, wit, and wisdom this volume is a companion for the journey of agingAging wisely ... wisdom of our elders
Par Irving Silverman Irving Silverman, Ellen Beth Siegel, Irving Silverman. 2018
Growing, older: a chronicle of death, life, and vegetables
Par Joan Dye Gussow. 2010
This memoir begins when the author loses her husband of 40 years to cancer and 2 weeks later finds herself…
skipping down the street--much to her alarm. With humor and wit, she explains how she stopped worrying about why she was smiling and went on worrying, instead, and as she always has, about the possibility that the world around her was headed off a cliff. But hers is not a message of gloom. Rather it is an affirmation of a life's work--and work in general. Author of "This Organic Life" and "The Feeding Web."From age-ing to sage-ing: a profound new vision of growing older
Par Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Ronald S. Miller. 2014
In this updated version of his popular 1995 book, rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi shares his wisdom and experience with readers on…
finding a way to turn aging into the most meaningful and joyous time of life. He shows readers how to create an aging process for themselves that is full of adventure, passion, mystery, and fulfillment, rather than anxiety. Using scientific research--both neurological and psychological-- Reb Zalman offers techniques that will expand horizons beyond the narrow view of "the present" into a grand and enduring eternityTurning points in women's lives: from the 20th to the 21st century
Par Susan A. Cho, Shirley Louise Patterson. 2012
Counting on kindness: the dilemmas of dependency
Par Wendy Lustbader. 1991
A Seattle mental health counselor compels attention to and sympathy for those who must rely on caregivers for their needs.…
From incapacitated men and women we learn of the humiliations caused by the loss of autonomy, of the frustrations at not being able to manage on one's own. Accounts from widely different sorts of patients and those who begrudgingly or willingly see to their care provide graphic lessons in sensitivitySuperSense: why we believe in the unbelievable
Par Bruce M. Hood, Bruce M Hood. 2008
Cognitive scientist explores the human tendency to believe in superstitions and the supernatural without scientific proof. Posits that this "supersense"…
is the result of mind design--the way that individuals give meaning to the world about them. Discusses creationism, biology versus culture, popular concepts, individual quirks, sacred values, and more. 2009Encore: finding work that matters in the second half of life
Par Marc Freedman. 2007
Suggests that having an "encore career" offers those of retirement age or retiring early the freedom to work in more…
meaningful and flexible ways. Recounts the experiences of second-career pioneers, who put fulfilling their personal desires and contributing to society ahead of income. 2007How to live: a search for wisdom from old people (while they are still on this earth)
Par Henry Alford. 2009
Humorist Alford discusses a variety of experiences people over the age of seventy shared during their interviews with him. Includes…
wit and wisdom from Phyllis Diller, Ram Dass, Edward Albee, a feminist psychotherapist, and the dumpster-diving, retired scientist father of NPR commentator Sandra Tsing Loh. Some strong language. 2009Forward from here: leaving middle age--and other unexpected adventures
Par Reeve Lindbergh. 2008
The youngest Lindbergh offspring, author of the memoir Under a Wing (RC 47547), pens essays on surviving a brain tumor…
and turning sixty. Describes life in the Vermont countryside, a writing career, and discovering her father Charles's multiple European families that include her seven half brothers and half sisters. 2008You, staying young: the owner's manual to extending your warranty
Par Mehmet Oz. 2007
Physician authors of "You: The Owner's Manual" offer advice on staying fit, strong, and healthy into one's eighties. They discuss…
increasing life expectancy by dealing with genes, bad habits, environmental toxins, and stress levels. The doctors also advocate exercise, balanced nutrition, and mental and social activities. Bestseller. 2007.A photograph of herself at forty-nine prompted the author to rethink her decades-long habit of dying her hair. Having decided…
to conduct an informal research project while transitioning to her natural hair color, Kreamer examines the way gray hair is viewed in the worlds of dating and work. 2007