Aging category: 2173 books
What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Getting Older
An Insider's Survival Manual for Outsmarting the Health-Care System
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Aging well frequently involves feeling your way blindly through a complex medical world: dealing with multiple doctors, facing baffling financial decisions, and figuring out whether you or a parent needs care outside the home. What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Getting Older turns the lights on,...
When the Time Comes
Families with Aging Parents Share Their Struggles and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2009
What will you do when you get the call that a loved one has had a heart attack or a stroke? Or when you realize that a family member is too frail to live alone, but too healthy for a nursing home?
Journalist Paula Span shares the resonant narratives of several families who faced these questions....
by Linda Burke
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
In this no-hype, fact-filled book, certified personal trainer Linda Burke clearly spells out what it takes to get fit and stay fit. Beginning with explaining what exactly constitutes a good fitness plan, she goes on to spell out exactly what you need to do and why you need to do it.
"The...
Older, Faster, Stronger
What Women Runners Can Teach Us All About Living Younger, Longer
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
One part personal quest to discover running greatness after age 50, one part investigation into what the women's running boom can teach athletes about becoming fitter, stronger, and faster as we age, Older, Faster, Stronger is an engrossing narrative sure to inspire women of all ages. A former overweight...
by Philip Selby
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
The first edition of this book, entitled "A Guide to Successful Aging" was published in English, French, German, Spanish, and Japanese, and tens of thousands of copies were sold. It has now been completely revised. People today live longer than ever before. This increasing longevity is of vital...
by Ben Bova
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
The first immortals are already living among us. You might be one of them.
That arresting statement sounds as if it might come from a science fiction story. But it is astonishing, exciting fact--as explained by Dr. Ben Bova. In his distinguished career, Dr. Bova has predicted many scientific...
Old Is In
A Guide For Aging Boomers
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2004
Is impotence contagious? At what age should a senior be surgically separated from his automobile, or obligated to donate his sex toys to the Salvation Army?
These and other timely questions are among those not answered in Eric Nicol's latest cure for serious reading, Old Is In. This palsied...
Old and Cold
Orientation 101
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
There’s a dearth of information on the everyday lives of the active and so-called “nearly elderly”—those sixty years of age and older. As is the case in any stage of life, it is infinitely easier to face the prospect of growing older if one has some inkling about what to expect. For all those...
by Anthony Cirillo
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
"Who Moved My Dentures?" examines 13 false notions about long-term care and aging in America. Nursing homes, assisted living, continuing care communities... What is fact? What is fiction? Where do I turn for help and information? Through heartwarming stories, "Who Moved My Dentures?" answers all these questions and more!!
Happiness Is a Choice You Make
Lessons from a Year Among the Oldest Old
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
A New York Times Bestseller!
An extraordinary look at what it means to grow old and a heartening guide to well-being, Happiness Is a Choice You Make weaves together the stories and wisdom of six New Yorkers who number among the “oldest old”— those eighty-five and up.
In 2015, when...
How To Prepare for Old Age
Without Taking the Fun Out of Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
In this touching, often humorous and very personal account, Bernie shares his 86 years of life, love, loss and laughter as an inspirational guide to what it means to age without growing old. His advice on love after 60, how to talk with family members about illness, what you should be prepared for...
by Margaret Morganroth Gullette
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
When the term “ageism” was coined in 1969, many problems of exclusion seemed resolved by government programs like Social Security and Medicare. As people live longer lives, today’s great demotions of older people cut deeper into their self-worth and human relations, beyond the reach of law or...
Ordinary Medicine
Extraordinary Treatments, Longer Lives, and Where to Draw the Line
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Most of us want and expect medicine’s miracles to extend our lives. In today’s aging society, however, the line between life-giving therapies and too much treatment is hard to see—it’s being obscured by a perfect storm created by the pharmaceutical and biomedical industries, along with insurance...
The Fountain of Youth Is Just A Breath Away
Breathing Exercises for Relaxation, Health and Vitality
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Learn self-healing and stress reduction through proper breathwork.
Experts say 80% of us are breathing incorrectly and don’t know it.
You can increase your energy and heal your body more quickly by learning to breathe correctly and incorporating breathing exercises into your daily...