Aging category: 2173 books
by Arno Geiger, Stefan Tobler
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
"How do we keep one another’s company? How might our lives unfold alongside those of our parents with Alzheimer’s nearby? In Arno Geiger’s exquisite memoir, he lets us into the private and sometimes sacred space he found in the company of his father—a relationship nurtured by his own...
A Place Called Canterbury
Tales of the New Old Age in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
An "affectionate, touchingly empathetic" (Janet Maslin, The New York Times) look at old age in America today Welcome to Canterbury Tower , an apartment building in Florida, where the residents are busy with friendships, love, sex, money, and gossip-and the average age is eightysix. Journalist Dudley...
Just When You're Comfortable in Your Own Skin, It Starts to Sag
Rewriting the Rules to Midlife
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
With the voice of a close friend, this clever and witty guide from bestselling duo Trisha Ashworth and Amy Nobile takes women through the new and sometimes challenging midlife phase, with chapters including:
- Redefining what beauty means after age 40... and that there is beauty after...
Wait Until Tomorrow
A Daughter's Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
A daughter’s memoir of sacrifice and discovery as her ailing mother’s caretaker is “an inspiring story of love, loss and the ravages of aging” (Kirkus).
Like all mothers, mine had a set of maxims that she thought were important to impart to me: if you can’t say anything nice, then...
by Mary Fran Bontempo
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
It happens to the best of us. On a day like any other, you look in the mirror and find a cranky, worn-out, middle-aged woman staring back at you. A woman who is firmly strapped into a giant pair of GRANNY PANTIES.Yes, aging is inevitable, but looking, and acting, like your grandma is not. So join Mary...
On the Brink of Everything
Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
**Aging as a passage of discovery and engagement
*From bestselling author Parker J. Palmer comes a brave and beautiful book for all who want to age reflectively, seeking new insights and life-giving ways to engage in the world. “Age itself,” he says, “is no excuse to wade in the shallows....
Still Here
Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
More than thirty years ago, an entire generation sought a new way of life, looking for fulfillment and meaning in a way no one had before. Leaving his teaching job at Harvard, Ram Dass embodied the role of spiritual seeker, showing others how to find peace within themselves in one of the greatest...
How Did This Happen?
Poems for the Not So Young Anymore
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
From the bestselling authors of The Hell with Love, a fierce, funny, touching collection that takes the sting out of "aging while female."
The Family Guide to Preventing Elder Abuse
How to Protect Your Parents—and Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
A resource for caregivers who want to protect vulnerable seniors from exploitation and harm.
The rapid aging of the American population and its accompanying epidemic of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease has brought about an awareness of the increasing vulnerability of our elders. Taking care...
Living in the Light of Death
On the Art of Being Truly Alive
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2001
This book presents the Buddhist approach to facing the inevitable facts of growing older, getting sick, and dying. These tough realities are not given much attention by many people until midlife, when they become harder to avoid. Using a Buddhist text known as the Five Subjects for Frequent Recollection,...
Younger Next Year: The Exercise Program
Use the Power of Exercise to Reverse Aging and Stay Strong, Fit, and Sexy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
The definitive exercise book that the one-million-plus readers of the Younger Next Year® series have been waiting for—and the exercise book that takes the intimidation out of starting a workout routine. Based on the science that shows how we can turn back our biological clocks by a combination...
What Would Virginia Woolf Do?
And Other Questions I Ask Myself as I Attempt to Age Without Apology
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
When Nina Collins entered her forties she found herself awash in a sea of hormones. As symptoms of perimenopause set in, she began to fear losing her health, looks, sexuality, sense of humor-perhaps all at once. Craving a place to discuss her questions and concerns, and finding none, Nina started...
While They're Still Here
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
• According to information published at Family Caregiver Alliance, 65% of older persons with long-term care needs rely exclusively on family and friends to provide assistance, and another 30% will supplement family care with assistance from paid providers. • A recent report, Families Caring for...
Time Fries!
Aging Gracelessly in Rehoboth Beach
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Fay Jacobs is back! Again! The author of the trilogy of humorous memoirs As I Lay Frying, Fried & True and For Frying Out Loud returns with more wise and witty recollections about contemporary life in general and more specifically life in Rehoboth Beach, a small resort town on the Delaware Coast. It’s provocative, political, occasionally heartwarming, and reliably hilarious.