Aging category: 2173 books
Care Giving for Alzheimer’s Disease
A Compassionate Guide for Clinicians and Loved Ones
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Veteran clinicians offer a unique framework for understanding the psychological origins of behaviors typical of Alzheimer's and other dementias, and for providing appropriate care for patients as they decline. Guidelines are rooted in the theory of retrogenesis in dementia--that those with the condition...
How to Live Forever
The Enduring Power of Connecting the Generations
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
The secret to happiness, longevity, and living on is through mentoring the next generation
In How to Live Forever, Encore.org founder and CEO Marc Freedman tells the story of his thirty-year quest to answer some of contemporary life's most urgent questions: With so many living so much longer,...
by Karen Gale
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
If you would love to practice yoga but can’t imagine doing so because …
... you don't look like the contortionists in the yoga books,
... you don't look like the yoga instructor in the fitness center, and
... you’ve tried a class and it really hurt ...
Stairway to Yoga is for you....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
The study of death has the capacity to bring together a range of policy areas. Yet death is often overlooked within policy debates in the UK and beyond, and within gerontology. Bringing together a range of scholars engaged in policy associated with death, this collection provides a holistic account...
The Meaning of Care
The Social Construction of Care for Elderly People
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2015
Bernhard Weicht provides a multi-layered analysis of how we understand and construct care in everyday life, the meanings it has for ourselves, our families, our relationships, identities and our sense of society and what is right and proper, making an original contribution to the discussion of the nature of care ethics and its political potential.
Innovations in Activities for the Elderly
Proceedings of the National Association of Activity Professionals Convention
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Concrete directions for programming and reasons for developing and refining such programs.
Insanity Begins at Home
Surviving Ma and the Road
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
In his poignant memoir, Ken Ludmer, details his often raucous, always conflicted, and yet loving relationship with his mother. After sixty plus years of their epic battle, Ludmer and his Ma attempt to heal their wounds as he cares for her, following her broken hip at age 91. In the last eighteen months...
Women and Therapy in the Last Third of Life
The Long View
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
What is distinct about the last third of life, about women, that makes psychotherapy different? In this diverse collection, the psychological meanings and challenges of the last third of life are explored, as the capacity of the psyche expands, sense of time changes, and some questions take on new...
by George Emmert RN
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
When an archer aims his bow at a target, it is usually done with deliberation, concentration and skill. He aims to place his arrow in the bull's-eye. As with everything inlife, however, the archer and we miss the bull's-eye more than we hit it. Thankfully though in archery the score is not...
by Susan Day
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
A moving saga about the lives of four young women who live through the precariousness of the Second World War, telling how the events that unfold in the following fifty years shape them and their children.
by Safwan Khan
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
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Exercises for Perfect Posture
Stand Tall Program for Better Health Through Good Posture
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Exercises for Perfect Posture is the complete guide to achieving healthy posture, providing everything from fitness programs and exercises designed to realign your spine and strengthen your shoulders, neck and back as well as guidance on how to redesign your work space to be more ergonomic.
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From Alzheimer's With Love
A Remarkable Journey of Healing Through the Grace of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Author tells true story of essential steps to healing Alzheimer’s.
Go where medical management leaves off.
A Christian strategy for outsmarting the grip of Alzheimer’s.
The Little Girl In The Radiator
Mum, Alzheimer's And Me
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
A TOUCHING TALE of love, loss and family, The Little Girl in the Radiator is the moving, amusing and uplifting story of one ordinary man's struggle to care for his mother after she develops Alzheimer's Disease.
Rose Slevin was was a highly active, intelligent and fiercely independent...