Aging category: 2173 books
Conscious Living, Conscious Aging
Embrace & Savor Your Next Chapter
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
We financially plan for our retirement, but do we plan for our wellbeing? Here is an empowering guide with practical tools to help you live a passionate, fulfilling second half of life.
If you’re part of the Baby Boomer generation, then you belong to 26 percent of the US population that is...
How We Age
A Doctor's Journey into the Heart of Growing Old
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
In the tradition of Atul Gawande and Sherwin Nuland, Marc Agronin writes luminously and unforgettably of life as he sees it as a doctor. His beat is a nursing home in Miami that some would dismiss as God's waiting room.” Nothing in the young doctor's medical training had quite prepared him for...
For Keeps
Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2007
Nearly every aging woman has a complicated relationship with her body.
For Keeps, an inspirational collection of personal essays from writers on their ever-changing bodies, will resonate with every maturing woman. Editor Victoria Zackheim brings together women with unique voices who have all...
by Charles Webb
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
YOU are a bodymind, not a body with a mind or vice versa. You are a verb, not a noun. You are fluid, constantly changing. The static you is a persistent illusion. You… your self, persona, ego…who you are… is a construct that is formed by the interaction of genetics, imprinting, and learning....
by James Bogash, DC
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
I have been publishing posts related to healthy aging for many years. This book is a compilation of blog posts done over the years in a organized format with some additional commentary to help make the information clearer.
Many of the topics discussed in this book may be new to you and may...
At Peace
Choosing a Good Death After a Long Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
The authoritative, informative, and reassuring guide on end-of-life care for our aging population.
Most people say they would like to die quietly at home. But overly aggressive medical advice, coupled with an unrealistic sense of invincibility or overconfidence in our health-care system, results...
by Barbara Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 1997
Barbara Johnson reveals her hilarious anti-aging remedy. Living Somewhere Between Estrogen and Death is your wise and witty guide to the joys and challenges of aging gleefully.
"They say the best way to grow old is not to be in a hurry about it and Lord knows, I've put it off for as long...
Talking with God in Old Age
Meditations and Psalms
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
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...
Strategically Placed
For Such a Time as This
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
I wish I could say I have a PhD or masters in sociology, but I cant. What I do have is experience. Experience with the fear of aging. My Bishop always say, "A man with experience is never at the mercy of a man with an argument". Which means, an experience cannot be disagreed or argued against,...
Younger Next Year
Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2007
Turn back your biological clock. A breakthrough book for men--as much fun to read as it is persuasive--Younger Next Year draws on the very latest science of aging to show how men 50 or older can become functionally younger every year for the next five to ten years, and continue to live like fifty-year-olds...
Younger Next Year for Women
Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2007
Co-written by one of the country's most prominent internists, Dr. Henry "Harry" Lodge, and his star patient, the 73-year-old Chris Crowley, Younger Next Year for Women is a book of hope, a guide to aging without fear or anxiety. This is a book of hope, a guide to aging without fear or anxiety. Using...
Your Room at the End
Thoughts About Aging We’d Rather Avoid
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
After enduring several painful months witnessing the decline and ultimate death of a loved one, author Charlie Hudson recognized that she needed to radically change her views on the realities of aging. Known for her easy storytelling style in both nonfiction and fiction, Hudson departs from her usual...
Necessary Conversations
Between Families and Their Aging Parents
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
In this timely book, long-time family counselors, Gerald and Marlene Kaufman, urge aging people, their adult children, family members, and other caretakers to talk directly with each other about the decisions that lie ahead as they age. "Do it before a crisis hits," say the Kaufmans. "A good time...
100 Simple Secrets of the Best Half of Life
What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Practical advice on how to thrive in the second half of your life, based on scientific studies. The sixth book in the bestselling 100 Simple Secrets series.
What do people who relish the second half of their lives do differently than those who dread getting older? Sociologists, therapists and...