Aging category: 2173 books

Author Steven Zwerling’s mother is 107, remembers Women’s Suffrage, supports same-sex marriage, thinks Chris Christie is popular because he’s fat and still believes no one’s exempt from following the Golden Rule. Zwerling chronicles conversations with his feisty mother and her equally plucky...

Humanity is on the cusp of an exciting longevity revolution. The first person to live to 150 years has probably already been born.   What will your life look like when you live to be over 100? Will you be healthy? Will your marriage need a sunset clause? How long will you have to work?...

What You Can Expect and How You Can Help Helping someone through the last years of their life is one of the most difficult journeys anyone can take. As the illness progresses, you may have to make important decisions on behalf of someone close to you. You may be responsible for ensuring...

Twilight Wish Moments is the first book dedicated to inspiring Twilight Wish true stories. Some of these stories have been featured in People, USA Today, AARP The Magazine, Family Circle, NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX News, CNN, and many other media outlets. If you love seniors, you will love this book.

As people live longer and better lives, both women and men may look forward to many years in retirement. But living well in retirement depends on a variety of decisions people make as they prepare for and enter this new chapter of life and living. This book is for and about women approaching and experiencing...

If you are apprehensive about having a life after work when you retire and wonder how you'll manage without the routine of regular work, then this book will enable you to get ready for retirement and change your identity from professional to retiree, senior citizen or older person.  This book...

Retirement is a life transition and a chance to thrive and enjoy life. This book encourages you to enjoy yourself and have an exciting and opportunity-filled retirement because retirement is not the end of the road it can be a new beginning. 

Advice Only a Loving Wife Can Give Destined to become the perfect retirement gift, Dear Hubby, About Your Retirement is filled with wisdom, warmth, and gentle advice from a wife to her husband. This unique book covers all the details concerning retirement, offering tongue-in-cheek admonitions...

Women know from experience that what it means to be independent, adventurous, successful, and sexy changes over time to fit new mindsets, roles, and lifestyles. Whether navigating the landscape of a new career path, dating again in a digital age, or in need of a beauty and fashion overhaul, award-winning...

OG (Old Guy) Dad recounts the adventures of a man who, in the proverbial autumn of his years, or at least the pre pre-autumn, discovers his girlfriend is pregnant. And having a baby. Whereupon hijinks, cosmic and mundane, ensues. A collection of celebrated columns on The Rumpus with new material and never-before-told tales, OG (Old Guy) Dad is Jerry Stahl at his finest and most domestic.

Too often, end-of-life care in the U.S. is fragmented, uncoordinated, costly, and unsustainable. But it doesn't have to be that way.*Last Comforts: Notes from the Forefront of Late-Life Care *spotlights many innovations that can make a significant difference as we approach the last chapters of our...

No one wants to have to second-guess how a loved one wants to be cared for at the end of his or her life, but that hasnt stopped some families from being torn apart by that very question. Gay Lyn Birkholz, a former professor of medical and business ethics who has served on several ethics boards coaching...

Fifty famous, accomplished, determined women celebrate, reflect upon, & embrace life at 50 & beyond.

Your height your weight your body shape your age the colour of your eyes - do not matter when you want to learn to belly dance. You will feel healthier, more energetic and happier, than you have ever felt. You will feel you are a beautiful woman. You will feel self-assured. You...