Aging category: 2173 books

The Caregiver's Training Program gives you practical, immediately useful tactics for caring for your aging parent. This book provides the step by step instruction you need to understand what to do, who to call and how to find help when you need it. With the staggering increase in the population of those...

This book is the summary of information that I believe is worthwhile and will help you maintain youthfulness. As the saying goes, garbage in garbage out, and this applies to your health as well. The more good you can put in, the more good you will display on the outside. Find ways to enhance your youthfulness by tweaking your diet, skin care, and habits.

This Brief is based on a research study of aging adults' perceptions and fear of crime in their community of Ferguson, Missouri. The study, which was conducted by coincidence just prior to the death of Michael Brown, presents unique insights into the community environment prior to those events, which...

Charles Tindell writes about the lives of real people. He then asks us to ponder thought-provoking questions about the meaning of these lives (and the meaning of our own lives as we grow older). We have many questions to answer: How do we deal with our parents’ aging and our own aging? What keeps a person’s spirit alive and growing?

“The Caring Code” offers a systematic approach to lead Baby Boomers through the fear and anxiety of dealing with an aging parent to confidence in making the right placement decisions, and is an excellent guide for families, employees, and caregivers in general. Owen-Lee adds “It is never too early...

Stories of meaning, magic, healing and transformation for enlightened elders - wisdom tales for a new vision of aging.

Prepare yourself for this raw and honest account of the author's experience of caring for his mother in his home for ten years, including end of life sequences involved. The grips of Alzheimer's disease and the transition through the dying process are depicted here in detail. This emotional testimony...

You need not move to live gracefully and safely as you age. A respected author taps into expertise on how your home can be modestly renovated to ease the physical challenges and provide a great quality of life in a familiar surrounding.

The house looked as if she'd brushed it over with a hurried hand. Things were open—drawers, cans, and closets. A pile of newspapers fanned out across the floor by the front door, and still I did not wonder. She must have dropped them as she ran, I thought. My mother was often late. But had I stopped...

Social Work with the Aged and Their Families presents the functional-age model (FAM) of intergenerational treatment, an integrative theoretical framework for social workers practicing with older adults and their families. In keeping with the Council on Social Work Education's curriculum mandate of...

The aging process is not always a pretty sight.  It causes changes that affect you internally as well as externally.  The two places that they are noticeable are the hair and the skin.  You can also feel a difference in your tissues and cells, but you won’t see them.  However, you may feel them...

**Key to the Fountain of Youth A Practical Plan to Win the War on Aging, Prevent Chronic Diseases, and Live a Longer, Happier, Healthier, and More Productive Life The must-read summary of “The Fountain: A Doctor’s Prescription to Make 60 the New 30,” by Rocco Monto, MD.** Over...

Nancy Knudsen never knew what to expect as she and her husband got older: She had to find out the hard way. But navigating the aging process shouldnt be a mystery, which is why she wrote this insightful, enlightening, and entertaining guide on what it really means to turn forty, fifty, sixty,...

My beliefs expressed in this book are based on my own experiences, my own research, and my own trial and error efforts to reach optimal health. Everyone is unique in their needs, and what works for one person may not work for another. My intention is to provide a general outline of a program that...