Aging category: 2173 books
The Caregiving Wife's Handbook
Caring for Your Seriously Ill Husband, Caring for Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
A month after proposing marriage, Diana Denholm’s husband was diagnosed with colon cancer and later congestive heart failure. Following a heart transplant several of her husband’s body systems began failing forcing Diana to become his primary caregiver for more than a decade. The Caregiving Wife’s...
Mum, Alzheimer's and Me
Staying Alive
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Everyone who has a friend or family member with Alzheimer's in a nursing home should read this book. It provides a close look at the challenges faced not only by the people who suffer from Alzheimer's but also, just as importantly, by the people (including nursing home staff) who care about them....
What Do You Do When Your Parents Live Forever?
A practical guide to caring for the elderly
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2007
Life expectancy is going up. Our parents are increasingly likely to be living into their eighties and nineties. Many find themselves in the position of caring for their parents when they are already retired themselves, or not in good health, or still have children to support financially. Do you feel...
by Donna B Comeaux
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
This is a narrative driven SHORT, SHORT STORY of a sixty-one-year-old woman who struggles to endure the lack of intimacy in her marriage.
by Martin Ettington
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
There are lots of books available on Immortality, but very few on how to become immortal yourself.
This book provides both a history of the Search for Immortality and a path for each person to get there in their current life.
Records of persons who lived from 112 to over 900 years are...
Older Adults and Autism Spectrum Conditions
An Introduction and Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
The first book to look seriously at the practical issues facing older adults with autism spectrum conditions (ASC), Wenn Lawson's groundbreaking handbook offers support, advice, and sensible ways in which to look at the issues.
Informed by current research, interviews with older people diagnosed...
by Anton Chekhov
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
"Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English."—The New Yorker
There have always been two versions of Chekhov’s heartrending and humorous masterwork: the one with which we are all familiar, staged by Konstatine Stanislavski at the Moscow...
You Are Old
Sobering Affirmations for Your Rapidly Disappearing Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Did you suddenly wake up and realize you are old? How did this happen? Where did all your youthful health, energy, and beauty go? And what can you do to recapture it and revitalize your life? Nothing. You're old.
From the New York Times best-selling authors of You Are Worthless and Just Give...
The Hot Topic
A Life-Changing Look at the Change of Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
This humorous, candid, and well-researched book is a refreshing and accessible guide to menopause for today’s modern woman.
There has never been a better time to be a menopausal woman. After all, technology is such that sixty really is the new forty…
But, for Christa D’Souza, menopause...
Laminine YTE
The Ultimate Gift to Health
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Laminine YTE (Young Tissue Extract) was first discovered by a Canadian doctor in 1929 and used on cancer patients until he died, just before his findings could be properly recognised. Forgotten about for nearly 50 years, a Norwegian egg expert, Dr Bjodne Eskelund, then developed and perfected a process...
by Lori-Ann Rickard
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Healthcare expert Lori-Ann Rickard reveals the easy and practical answers that only an insider knows. Spin Your Healthcare Your Way and know what to do for Your Hospital Stay with her guide.
Easy Healthcare: Your Hospital Stay gives you the secrets no outsider would guess such as:
...
The New York Times Book of Health
How to Feel Fitter, Eat Better, and Live Longer
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
To Your Health!
Recognizing that consumers sometimes feel overwhelmed by the relentless and often conflicting stream of medical reports, New York Times health reporter Jane E. Brody and her colleagues distill the information you really need from current findings, present balanced assessments...
In Your Prime
Older, Wiser, Happier
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Humane, witty, wise and full of practical advice: India Knight's guide to ageing is the book every woman has been waiting for.
'Our mothers' fifty is not our fifty. We have no map, no blueprint, no nothing. We have no sense of what is and isn't age-appropriate, or even of whether age-appropriateness...
by Marie Ponsot
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Leave it to the graceful Marie Ponsot, now in her late eighties, to view her life in poetry as easeful. As she tells us, pondering what stones can hear, “Between silence and sound / we are balancing darkness, / making light of it.” In this celebratory collection, Ponsot makes light, in both senses,...