Aging category: 2173 books
When Your Parent Moves In
Every Adult Child's Guide to Living with an Aging Parent
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2009
So you thought youÆd never have to live with Mom again? Think again. As the population ages, elderly parents everywhere are moving in with their childrenùand changing everything. Making roomùphysically, emotionally, and financiallyùfor an elderly parent can push families to their limits. This...
The Essential Guide to Caring for Aging Parents
A Wise and Practical Guide to Navigating the Complex World of Family Elder Care
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
The tools and answers you need to help your parents receive the care they deserve.
by Walter Parks
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2011
To have beautiful skin you need to understand the characteristics and structure of your own personal skin.
Skin is the body’s largest organ. It's made up of three layers: the epidermis, the dermis, and the hypodermis; each of which has its own purposes.
You also need to understand your skin...
Suddenly Single After 50
The Girlfriends' Guide to Navigating Loss, Restoring Hope, and Rebuilding Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
A stressful, protracted divorce. A difficult, painful death of a beloved husband. And suddenly, after age 50, you’re on your own again. Your children have moved out, your parents are aging fast or deceased, your friends’ lives continue onward, seemingly unchanged. Being suddenly single after age...
Unspent Motion
A Collection of Short Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
From KIRKUS REVIEWS: "A collection of short stories and a novella that explore love, aging, loss and solitude from a feminist perspective. In the short stories, nearly all of Newbrough's memorable protagonists are older women, isolated in some way through circumstances or quirks of their personalities....
Never Too Late to Go Vegan
The Over-50 Guide to Adopting and Thriving on a Plant-Based Diet
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
If you're 50 or over and thinking (or already committed to!) a vegan diet and lifestyle that will benefit your health, animals, and the planet, look no further than this essential all-in-one resource. Authors Carol J. Adams, Patti Breitman, and Virginia Messina bring 75 years of vegan experience to...
The Middlepause
On Life After Youth
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
"In The Middlepause Benjamin deftly and brilliantly examines the losses and unexpected gains she experienced in menopause. Menopause is a mind and body shift as monumental and universal as puberty, yet far less often discussed, especially in public, which is what makes Benjamin's work here so urgently...
Keepers of the Wisdom
Reflections from Lives Well Lived
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
Keepers of the Wisdom, a daily meditation guide for older adults, captures the words of the aging themselves and provides a deep sense of spiritual center gained through experience and acceptance.
After the first joys of early retirement, author Karen Casey quickly experienced a minor identity...
by William Doreski
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2000
The Sun Keeps Setting examines in memoir-form the difficulties of dealing with aging and illness. Written as a daily journal, journal, thereby resisting outline, it focuses on my eighty-one-year-old fathers 1996 bypass surgery and the effect it had on the rest of the family. It deals with the immediately...
by Claire Cook
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
“A veritable fountain of exciting and practical suggestions for women who want to make sure that even though one cannot help growing older, she can indeed keep from growing old.”—Pamela Kramer, Examiner
If you're a forty-to-forever woman who's interested in aging well, don't miss this...
Fantastic Voyage
Live Long Enough to Live Forever
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2004
One of the most respected scientists and futurists in America teams up with an expert on human longevity, to show how we can tap today's revolution in biotechnology and nanotechnology to virtually live forever.
Startling discoveries in the areas of genomics, biotechnology, and nanotechnology...
by Pauline Whitchurch, Evelyn Beilenson, Bonnie Krebs
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Chronologically challenged? Storm those golden years and party 'til the early bird special with this laugh-out-loud book, illustrated with hilarious full-color caricatures of sassy seniors run amok. No matter what your age, you'll get a kick out of a generation that knows better but couldn't care less!
Don't Grow Old, Grow Healthy
Look and Feel Younger...Dr. Chauchard's 30-Day Rejuvenation Program
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2006
This book presents a comprehensive explanation of the causes of aging: the role of inflammation, how insulin can help us stay thin, the way free radicals 'rust" the body, and how sugars age us. Readers will discover and understand what really causes aging and get indispensable advice on how to take control.
Careless Caregivers
True Eldercare Stories of Rotten Bananas, Stolen Morphine & Shrinky Dinks™
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Careless Caregivers is not a planner or guide to eldercare nor is it a diary or journal relating an eldercare odyssey. Rather, it is a short collection of true stories about one family’s eldercare experience with hired in-home caregivers. Told in a blunt and humorous fashion, the book has a simple...