Aging category: 2173 books
to remember love
two promises that led me to the notes in the ashes
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
"to remember love" is a book based on the true story of how Tonya Ferguson and her family, were forced to live their lives clinging to the edge of a jagged cliff, while battling a fierce, non-stop, thirteen year storm.
Look around you and you will find someone that is a Caregiver,...
Songs of the Baka and Other Discoveries
Travels after Sixty-Five
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Abandoning the comfort and security of a typical retirement, a couple travels and treks through the most isolated parts of the world.
After their retirement, Dennis James and Barbara Grossman decide to travel where tour buses won’t and where the US government says don’t,” incorporating...
If I Live to Be 100
Lessons from the Centenarians
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2010
Neenah Ellis's New York Times bestselling If I Live to Be 100 takes us inside the world of the very old and invites us to learn from them the art of living well for an exceptionally long period of time. Their stories add up to a course in living, with lessons and inspiration for all of us.
by Harold Christman Howell Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Over The Edge: The Snake River Miracle
Frantically, I pumped the brakes. The road was slick. The tires hit the heavy snow on the shoulder and pulled me toward the edge. In an instant I was airborne. The headlights shone into the black abyss, reflecting only the blizzard-driven snow. The thought...
by Elizabeth Love
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
This, Elizabeth Love's fifth published book, is a condensed profile of the man she met 14 years ago and a short record of their friendship. As the title suggests it is about growing old and about her as a pensioner. It is also meant as a tribute to her friend.
It follows in the wake of others...
Planning Your Time in Retirement
How to Cultivate a Leisure Lifestyle to Suit Your Needs and Interests
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Much of what is written about getting old has a negative feel to it, which is certainly not entirely unjustified. Health may begin to fail. Finances may become tighter as income dwindles or stops altogether. Family and friends may move away or move on. But the retirement years do not have to be negative...
BECOMING AN ADULT AND LAUGHING ALONG THE WAY
How to Grow up and Succeed!
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
This book (for men, ages 18 and up) takes a humorous look at life and how one achieves real adulthood. It contains lots of laughs and wisdom from the author who has an M.A. degree in Psychology and 30 years as a Probation Officer. There are many stories within this book that will entertain, educate,...
by Patricia Edgar
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Retirement is not the time to cut all ties and head off to live in a warm climate but rather to ask: Who do I want to be near? How will my relationships be reaffirmed? What do I care about? What can I create and contribute to the world?
Meet Jim Brierley, who was still jumping out of planes...
Alone and Invisible No More
How Grassroots Community Action and 21st Century Technologies Can Empower Elders to Stay in Their Homes and Lead Healthier, Happier Lives
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
In Alone and Invisible No More, physician Allan S. Teel, MD, describes how to overhaul our eldercare system. Based on his own efforts to create humane, affordable alternatives in Maine, Teel's program harnesses both staff and volunteers to help people remain in their homes and communities. It offers...
Restore Elder Pride
Shift the Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
In 2006, seventy-seven million baby boomerspeople who worked hard all their liveswill begin to turn sixty. They have a right to expect the best of everything, but if the nursing home industry doesnt change dramatically and soon, they can only expect the worst. Today, nearly two million people are...
Your Best Age Is Now
Embrace an Ageless Mindset, Reenergize Your Dreams, and Live a Soul-Satisfying Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Although we’ve been conditioned to think “middle aged” is practically a four-letter word, the realities of women in midlife today are far different than what our mothers experienced. Women in their 40s, 50s, and even 60s are living younger, vibrant lives. But influenced by our youth-obsessed...
Prime Time (with Bonus Content)
Love, health, sex, fitness, friendship, spirit; Making the most of all of your life
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
BONUS: This eBook includes the full text of the book plus 50 photographs not found in the print version.
In this inspiring and candid book, Jane Fonda, #1 bestselling author, actress, and workout pioneer, gives us a blueprint for living well and for making the most of life, especially the second...
Adventure of Ascent
Field Notes from a Lifelong Journey
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
In this book, writer-poet Luci Shaw has given us a lifetime of exquisite reflections on nature, love, death, suffering, loss, faith, doubt, creativity, curiosity, lifelong learning—all of it drawn from the breadth of her own experience, harvested in penetrating and lyrical insights. Still active...
Leap!
What Will We Do with the Rest of Our Lives?
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2008
Thirty years ago, Sara Davidson wrote the phenomenal bestseller Loose Change, the definitive book about the boomer generation’s coming-of-age. Now this witty social observer has again turned her discerning eye to her contemporaries, with Leap!, a no-holds-barred, illuminating, and hopeful look at...