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"In Stupid things I won't do when I get old, Petrow candidly addresses the fears, frustrations, and stereotypes that accompany aging. He offers a blueprint for the new old age, and an understanding that aging and illness are not the same. As he writes, 'I meant the list as a pointed reminder--to me--to make different choices when I eventually cross the threshold to 'old'" -- Excerpt from jacket flap.
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Ehrenreich's core philosophy holds that aging people have the right to determine their quality of life and may choose to forgo painful and generally ineffective treatments. She presents evidence that such tests as annual physicals and Pap smears have little effect in prolonging life; investigates wellness trends, including mindfulness meditation; and questions the doctrine of a harmonious "mindbody" and its supposed natural tendency to prolong life....
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The average age of the people living in the Morning Glory condominium is sixty-two. Together in the well-used recreation room, watching movies, playing cards, holding an art show, or a wake, these seniors are, finally, 'really' living.
Mary is busy with her daughter and pregnant granddaughter, while Alice desperately wants more time with her family. Phil and Helen's affair is discovered, Paul and Sandra agree to become friends with benefits and Lise...
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Support, respite, and encouragement for those who care for othersTaking care of a family member who is ill, disabled, or dying requires courage, strength, commitment, and love. Now Terry Hargrave, an expert in counseling and caregiving, offers you help with a devotional written with your specific needs in mind. The morning prayers and evening reflections in this book are short and to the point. Strength and Courage for Caregivers weaves together powerful...
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Anne Kulis Marcin has just passed her 100th birthday and in this work she talks about facing the end of a good life. She was born in Queens, New York in a time when there were still farms in the backyards of her Lithuanian and Russian neighbors. She witnessed the pivotal events that formed our times: the election of Herbert Hoover, the stock market crash, and the sad state of Stalin's Russia.
Her young life was a time of silent movies, horses pulling...
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As Camille ages, Brian feels it's time that Camille moves closer to him. Camille doesn't share that view and proceeds to prove it through Adult Education Courses to show she is still relevant. She enlists her friend Sarah to attend 'Intro to French Cooking' with her. All goes well until their perfect souffle deflates with a thud. Camille's 'Internal Construction Class' leaves her nauseous from the dry wall and Camille's, entertaining but often inconvenient,...
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Journey Guiding Parents into Aging in Place is focused on assisting elderly parents to age in place. The book is designed as a workbook that the children of aging parents can use as a guideline in this process. Since children have never experienced being an older person, this guideline is written to assist them in assisting their parents to age in place gracefully.
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Eileen weaves 18 non-fiction and fictional stories that bring generations together in friendship, fun, love and sometimes sadness. There is the pain of a parent's early death, a caring relationship between a nurse and a young hospital patient and then fun and games on a Manhattan street. She creates a montage of fictional stories showing love lost, an advertising executive longing for another life, a distraught homeless woman begging on the streets,...
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Richard L. Morgan has carved a niche as a bestselling author and an authority on older adult ministries and concerns. Now, he chronicles his own transition to a retirement community. Morgan speaks frankly about the losses and realities as he approached his own not-yet-frail "fourth quarter" (after age 75). Drawing from his journals of those sometimes-agonizing months, he takes us through his decision to move to a long-term facility and the first year...
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El Nido Vacío fue creado porque yo nunca entendí lo que realmente significaba "nido vacío". Y luego de 30 años esperados, finalmente tuve mi experiencia de primera mano.
¿Nido vacío o no era?
Finalmente encontré la respuesta y quería compartir mi experiencia contigo. Espero que encuentres este libro útil, así como comienzas tu propio viaje a través del nido vacío.
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Aging often brings concerns about health, worries about finances, and frustrations about change. The so-called golden years can seem filled with loneliness and pain. How is a person of faith to cope with the challenges and find purpose for the rest of his or her life? Missy Buchanan encourages older adults to maintain open dialogue with God. Through a series of personal poems and reflections, each coupled with a selection from Psalms, Buchanan presents...
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Olders' Voices describes what it's like to become and to be older. Twenty-nine people tell their stories. They are in their 70s and 80s, one 99, and one 68. People from all over the United States and one from Canada talk about their feelings and well-being now and what they did before they were older. They come from a wide variety of professions and occupations and a wide variety of experiences and beliefs. This is a book for olders to read so they...
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Ser concebido, nacer vivo, superar las enfermedades y peligros de la infancia y la adolescencia no son más que golpes de suerte o azares estadísticos. Conservar la vida durante décadas en un estado relativamente bueno es una inmensa suerte que no debe estropearse con minucias sobreactuadas o problemas inventados.
Este libro es un alegato a favor del disfrute de una vida inteligente y placentera, dispuesta a afrontar solo las desgracias inevitables...
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In diesem Buch hatten wir versucht, die verschiedenen besten Punkte zu behandeln, die bei der Überwindung des Alterns helfen können. Dieses Buch hat ungefähr 10000 Wörter. Die Hauptüberschriften in diesem Buch sind wie folgt geschrieben: - Was ist an uns, dass wir nicht besser auf uns selbst aufpassen? Es gibt zwei Arten von Menschen auf der Welt. Sind Sie über dem Alter von 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, oder sogar mehr als das? Menschliche...
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Con el envejecimiento, independientemente de la etapa de la vida de la que estamos hablando, se está produciendo una metamorfosis. En verdad, asusta al ser dentro de todos y cada uno de nosotros. ¿Por qué? Porque no sabemos cómo hacer esto llamado envejecimiento. Preferiríamos practicar la NEGACIÓN probada y verdadera. ¿Quién quiere admitir a sí mismos, o a cualquier otra persona, el grado en que se sienten impotentes e indefensos sobre lo...
16) Changing Places
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A baby boomer named Sarah is nearing retirement. But before she can embrace it, there comes a day that would be forever etched into her mind: it was the day she received a call from her mother's friend.
"Had she talked with her mother lately?" the friend gently asked.
Something was very wrong.
As Sarah drives back home, a sense of extreme dread overwhelms her. She prays but can't seem to shake the heaviness. What she finds when she arrives is devastating....
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"Where there is stress, or receding hairlines and liver spots, there is humor." -John McPherson
More than one third of the world's population is officially over the hill, while the rest of us are quickly approaching its summit.
Be it the ritual hazing of new residents at Spring Meadow Retirement Center that requires retirees to drink 25 shots of prune juice, or the oxymoronic humor involved in the publication of the "1st Annual Swimsuit Edition of...
18) MayaDan
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About 1200 B.C., a gentle warrior's soul was born. Follow Mayadan (my-a-dan) from boyhood to beyond the grave. He, his sister, mother and father are a family full of love and beauty.
Their lives were changed when tragedy, death and a quest for survival became reality. He moves from boy, to leader, to father, to peacekeeper, as he traverses through jungles, barren land and rivers to another land where he finds his love and a new home.
19) Now and Then
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items about self, childhood, travels, 2 marriages; famous people and current retirement and widowhood.
20) Empty Nest
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Empty Nest was created because I never understood what an "empty nest" really meant. After a long awaited thirty years, I finally had my firsthand experience.
Empty nest? Or was it not? I finally found the answer for me and wanted to share my experience with you.
I hope you find this book to be helpful as you begin your own journey through an empty nest.
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