Aging category: 2173 books
The Complete Eldercare Planner, Revised and Updated Edition
Where to Start, Which Questions to Ask, and How to Find Help
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
The only guide you’ll ever need to manage the care of your aging family
FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED
As our population shifts and ages, the care needs for our elders continue to change and evolve. Today’s generation of family and professional caregivers faces new decisions and challenges,...
A Journey To An End
A Daughter Takes Her Father From His Home to Hers, From a Nursing Home to a Funeral Home
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
I never planned to be among the populous of adult children caring for their aging parents, but when circumstances as abrupt and unwelcome as a tsunami presented themselves, my elderly father came to live with my husband and me. Not only was our coveted retirement lifestyle interrupted, but I was catapulted...
The Next Fifty Years
A Guide for Women at Midlife and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
IS THERE LIFE AFTER HOT FLASHES?Yes! According to Pamela Blair, psychotherapist and author of The Next Fifty Years! That person in the mirror is you and now is the time to understand and accept the external changes while making some internal changes. Make peace with yourself, embrace aspects...
by Robert F. Bornstein PhD, Mary A. Languirand PhD
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2009
When an aging family member needs some extra help and care, whether a parent, spouse, sibling, or friend, this is the book to get. It delivers bottom-line, no-nonsense, practical information for every stage of need, from the earliest signs of illness, through the nursing home, and beyond.
Written...
It Never Ends
Mothering Middle-Aged Daughters
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
It Never Ends: Mothering Middle-Aged Daughters explores the complex challenges and unexpected rewards of aging mothers in their relationships with their midlife daughters. Based on interviews with women between 65 and 85, it illuminates issues of closeness, distance, longing, and need that arise....
Not As Prescribed
Recognizing and Facing Alcohol and Drug Misuse in Older Adults
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
The leading clinical expert on substance misuse and abuse, Dr. Harry Haroutunian of the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, provides caregivers and loved ones with vital information needed to understand and address addiction issues in older adults.
Drug and alcohol problems are booming in older...
by Stephanie Darie
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
For more than 90 years, four generations of my family have been enjoying the benefits of these recipes which are all based on well-kept secrets about the natural powers of fruits. This book contains rare knowledge that has been passed by word-of-mouth, from mother to daughter, for a long, long time....
Next Steps
A Practical Guide to Planning for the Best Half of Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Merit Prize winner, 19th Annual Mature Media Awards, National Media (Book) division. Written for older Americans, their Baby Boomer children, and everyone who cares for an older family member, this practical and comprehensive guide will help you build a strategy for coping with the unique legal, medical,...
Quick, Answer Me Before I Forget the Question
100 Answers You're Old Enough to Hear
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Just for fun is this wonderful little book for anyone harassed by those inevitable signs of aging, e.g., short-term memory loss and income strategies for retirement. In this everything-you-wish-you-didn't-need-to-know guidebook, Padwa (Say the Magic Words: How To Get What You Want from the People...
Boomer Babes
A Woman's Guide to the New Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Are you going to allow your waist to expand and your mind to narrow without a struggle? You, who marched against war and launched the sexual revolution? You, slip into midlife without so much as a backward glance? No way!
This irreverent look at life on the cusp of fifty, from two "boomer...
Scattered
My Year As An Accidental Caregiver
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
In November 2009 Jana Panarites was scrambling to make ends meet in LA. Her career spiraling out of control, she didn't think life could get any worse until she learned of her father's sudden death two days before Thanksgiving. She flew east for the funeral, and was forced to confront her future head-on...
Unexpected Gifts
My Journey With My Father's Dementia
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
“He didn’t know his age, the year, or his surroundings, but he knew his life could still make a difference. On this path, he went forward with his heart. Every emotion was authentic. Each moment was new—but it was also full of love, anger, or fear, and he had to travel through it.”
In a...
I Still Have It . . . I Just Can't Remember Where I Put It
Confessions of a Fiftysomething
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
I bought a new wrinkle cream.
If you use it once a day, you look younger in a month.
Twice a day, you look younger in two weeks.
I ate it.
As the years go by, and the decades begin to pile up, people will do just about anything to reverse the signs of aging: LASIK surgery, industrial-strength...
Flip-Flops After Fifty
And Other Thoughts on Aging I Remembered to Write Down
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Who hasn’t experienced life’s painful jabs—especially those of us who have rounded the corner into middle age? Emotional family events, stress from lousy jobs, the bittersweet feelings when the kids leave home, body image issues, and turning the big 5-0 . . . it’s all covered here in Cindy...