Aging category: 2173 books
by Stephen Golant
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
“If there’s one place to go for everything you need to know about housing and aging, it’s Stephen Golant. He brings a lifetime of deep scholarly knowledge to this book.”— Harry Moody, Ph.D., Retired Vice President, AARP“[provides] deep knowledge about the great variety of places in which...
by Di Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
Noted Gerontologist, speaker and author Di Patterson highlights a wealth of life’s lessons for being happier and more fulfilled. Her sources are not professional treatises on aging and wisdom or academic papers. She takes her cue from … the movies.
There is a saying that some people grow wise...
by John C Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
What does getting old involve? What are the psychological and spiritual gifts and pitfalls of this new life stage? And what are its greatest challenges and discoveries? Bedtime Stories for Elders: What Fairy Tales Can Teach Us About the New Aging, is a fun and spiritually-oriented book, that answers...
by Margaret Christenson, Ellen D Taira
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Aging in the Designed Environment is the key sourcebook for physical and occupational therapists developing and implementing environmental designs for the aging. The physical environment remains one of the most overlooked areas in environmental design. In order to move beyond this status quo, persons...
by Ann Elizabeth Carson
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
We All Become Stories speaks to us because it reveals “aging” as not something that happens just to older people, but as a lifelong evolution – a journey of self-discovery open to everyone. Through their stories, conversations with them, and her own poetry, Ann Elizabeth Carson illuminates...
Stop Aging, Start Living
The Revolutionary 2-Week pH Diet That Erases Wrinkles, Beautifies Skin, and Makes You Feel Fantastic
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2007
Though other skin-care experts have identified free radicals and cellular inflammation as key triggers to the breakdown of healthy skin, renowned dermatologist and former National Institutes of Health fellow Jeannette Graf, M.D., has discovered a way to prevent these saboteurs from developing in the...
Emergent Seniors’ Age-ability Framework
An Ecological Framework for Positively Supporting Changing Preferential Age-able Behaviours of Daily Living in Long Term Care
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
a new age of old age… As people age they change, just as they changed through child and youth development. As children and youth undergo development and emerge differently as a result of their development, so seniors undergo development and emerge differently as a result of their development. ...
by Cheryl Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Anti-Aging Treatments and Prevention: Simple Changes You Can Make To Stay Healthy and Look Younger
This book covers several topics including:
- Anti-Aging Skin Care Products - Blueberry Effects - Antioxidants - Does Smoking Cause Wrinkles? - Age-Defying Superfoods - Vitamins That...
by Kathy Lester
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Did you know that you have a choice as to how you want to age? No matter what age you are now or what kind of health status you have, you can CHOOSE to either grow OLDER or become YOUNGER. It’s actually up to YOU!
I know it’s kind of strange to think this way as we are all...
by Pat Flury
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Get up! Get moving! Have fun, and add years to your life!
The clock stops for no one. You’re Never Too Young to Defy Aging is the road map to longevity, but more importantly it focuses on quality of life in pursuit of longevity. Here is the toolbox comprised of things you must do today to...
Eldercare 101
A Practical Guide to Later Life Planning, Care, and Wellbeing
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
The Silver Tsunami is upon us as elder care and crisis management reaches a tipping point with the graying of America. By 2020, 54 million people in the U.S. will be over the age of 65; by 2030, that number will top 80 million. Feeling the squeeze of multi-generational home demands, children of aging...
My Parents Got Old! Now What Do I Do?
A Practical Guide to Caring for Your Aging Parents
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
An aging population means an increasing number of children take care of their parents. While adult children have been their elderly parents caregivers for generations, those in that role today face challenges others have not. Its no wonder many feel overwhelmed and stressed when they first take responsibility...
Finding Meaning in Later Life
Gathering and Harvesting the Fruits of Women’s Experience
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Finding Meaning in Later Life: Gathering and Harvesting the Fruits of Women’s Experience is an exploration in understanding the psychological tasks inherent for women in creating and maintaining purpose as they mature and enter their later years. With ever-increasing lifespan for elders, it becomes...
Disability and Aging Discrimination
Perspectives in Law and Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
Two things are certain in the contemporary workplace: the aging of employees, and negative attitudes toward them - especially those with disabilities—by younger colleagues and supervisors. Yet related phenomena seem less clear: how do negative stereotypes contribute to discrimination on the job?...