Aging category: 2173 books
Aging Is Living
Myth-Breaking Stories from Long-Term Care
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
Through the inspirational, wise, and informative stories of the residents, either in their own words or based on interviews, and environmental photographs of each, this book focuses on various residents of long-term care facilities and especially on the positive facets of their life, their thoughts,...
Hi I'm Bill and I'm Old
Reinventing My Sobriety for the Long Haul
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009
For baby boomers and beyond—an honest, often humorous look at how staying clean and sober takes on a new dimension as the challenges of aging are thrown into the mix.
"Funny, courageous, and empowering. In exploring the richness of his own life, Alexander celebrates and invites us to discover...
Free to Be Fabulous
100 Ways to Look and Feel Younger at 40, 50 and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
An inspirational step-by-step guide to acquiring the daily habits that support and instill the art of aging gracefully and stylishly.
When you look in the mirror, do you recognize that old woman looking back at you? Aging doesn’t have to mean “getting old.” Our bodies, minds, and faces...
Good Jeans
10 Simple Truths about Feeling Great, Staying Sexy & Aging Agelessly
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Diane Gilman, Home Shopping Network's #1 fashion personality,wants to help women reinvent and reinvigorate themselves as they approach the over-40 milestone, and beyond.
Like so many women who enter the second half of their lives, Diane found herself trudging along, having lost the energy that...
by Speedy Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Beauty has less to do with natural inheritance than it does with work and effort. The more you learn about beauty products, the more you grow to realize that you are better off making them yourself! Beauty recipes allow you to make beauty products at a more affordable cost. You can make many beauty products simply by raiding your kitchen!
Did I Really Change My Underwear Every Day?
One Geezer's Handbook for (Temporary) Survival
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Recent retirees have a lot of adjustments to make, and we’re not talking only pant size here. This entertaining book on aging offers hilarious suggestions for handling some of life’s more daunting challenges--from prostate cancer to keeping fit, from overly complicated TV remotes to night driving....
by Richard Lederer
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
A blend of touching stories, fascinating facts, and rollicking humor is presented in this entertaining look at the jaunt towards senior citizenship. Guaranteed to stir souls, stimulate minds, and tickle funny bones, the chapters include Why It’s Great to Be Chronologically Endowed, Grandkids Say...
by Carol Mithers
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2015
Caring for aging parents may be today’s defining midlife experience—and Carol Mithers went through it in multiples. Four aging relatives needed her at once, while she was working and raising her own family, sweeping her into a place she calls elderworld. The experience changed her forever. This...
The Shelf Life of Ashes
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
When Hollis Giammatteo sought a job working with the elderly, she did so with the intention of finding models of healthy aging. And she failed. In The Shelf Life of Ashes, Giammatteo chronicles her experiences with her wards, as well as the trip she embarks upon when her mother, who is convinced she...
A Time to Live
Seven Tasks of Creative Aging
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1998
In A Time To Live, Robert Raines explores the spiritual and emotional dimensions of what can be the most rewarding time of life. Drawing on his experiences as an ordained minister and as director of a non-denominational retreat center focusing on issues of personal growth, Raines delineates the important...
Becoming Dead Right
A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
All of us are entitled to the rewards of a peaceful, pain-free death. This book honors that with true stories about hospice patients and inspiring insights from the author. Becoming Dead Right guides us through the general and "how to" information maze that prepares us for dealing with death.
Improving...
Keep It Up
The Power of Precision Medicine to Conquer Low T and Revitalize Your Life!
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
As a man ages, a slow decline takes root that, day to day, is imperceptible. Sometime around age 30, levels of the male hormone testosterone begin to drop each year. One morning he looks in the mirror and sees someone who he doesn't recognize. He's tired-looking, lacks motivation, his belly is sagging...
Mothering Mother
A Daughter’S Experience in Caregiving
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
It is a transforming time for everyone involved when an aging adult begins to require more assistance and care from loved ones. Little by little, as elderly adults are asked to let go of things they have always done or cherished, caregivers attempt to fill their lives with love, warmth, and securityall...
by Nan McAdam
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2015
Baby boomers are aging and retiring, creating the largest group of seniors the world has ever known. This trend has adult children looking at uncertain futures of meeting their retirement and life goals while providing for their aging parents.
Along this journey of providing care, many care...