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Look to this book for advice, techniques, and strategies to help
people stay vigorous and healthy as they grow older.
People are becoming increasingly knowledgeable about managing
their health as they age. "Healthy Aging For Dummies" explains how
people can embark on a healthy lifestyle that will enable them to
feel young, both mentally and physically, even as they're getting
older. It covers tips and advice on choosing the ideal physician;
starting an exercise program; learning to meditate; taking the
right vitamins and herbs; dealing with or preventing heart disease,
cancer, and dementia; replacing negative thinking with positive
thinking; and building memory and learning skills.
A woman reluctantly takes on the responsibility of putting her eccentric rebellious mother into a retirement home, and managing her care. She has her own daughter to raise and nurture, a marriage and a business to hold together, and her own psychological troubles due in good part to how she was mothered.
My Mother, My Madness is Colleen Higgs’s diary of her mother’s last ten years. It is at once funny, harrowing, mundane, chaotic, and full of insight. It is a rich and moving story which unfolds through its characters like a novel.
Colleen Higgs is the author of two collections of poetry (Halfborn Woman, 2004, and Lava Lamp Poems, 2011) and a short story collection (Looking for Trouble – Yeoville Stories, 2012). She founded Modjaji Books in 2007 and, after publishing more than 150 books, is still Modjaji’s manager and publisher.
Flipping conventional retirement on its head, this beautifully
illustrated book showcases and celebrates what people are doing
after the job, kids, and an increasing longer middle age. Many
people are experiencing the most productive and thrilling part of
their lives past the age of 70. Third Act profiles more than sixty
men and women who are redefining old age, who challenge the
convention of retirement, and who inspire by their rich and various
experiences, enterprises, projects, pursuits, and accomplishments
in the latter part of their lives. Stories of people's third act
include Ida Keeling (b. 1915) who has set running records for her
age group, Robert Redford's (b. 1936) who continues to work as an
environmentalist and activist, Carl Butz (b. 1946) who bought a
small town newspaper, Freeman Vines (b. 1942) who began making
guitars in his retirement, Dolores Huerta (b. 1930) wo continues to
work for the poor and marginalized, and George Takei (b. 1937) who
champions for LGBTQ equality. The profiles are from a wide range of
people of different backgrounds (with a diversity of gender, race,
and socio-economic background).
Design a long life full of love, purpose, well-being, and
friendship, at any age, using the creative tools of award-winning
product designer, author, and world's #1 life coach Ayse Birsel.
What does it mean to craft the life you want, as you grow older?
For industrial designer and author Ayse Birsel, the answer draws on
key principles of design-like optimism, empathy, collaboration,
open-mindedness, and holistic thinking-as well as the experiences
of older people on the pioneering frontiers of long life. Longer
life is a thrilling, modern opportunity, and like so many parts of
life it needs to be thoughtfully designed.Thinking about a long
life is very exciting indeed. It's also a new phenomenon. Fifty
years ago, living into one's seventies was considered the mark of a
long life. Today, seventy feels young, eighty feels normal, and
ninety is within reach. Birsel believes this new horizon of life is
as important and exciting as the invention of moving pictures. Or
that of automobiles, or even space travel. Her point is, when a
change this big happens, innovation follows. This book is for
everyone who is interested in defining their long life, using
design thinking tools. It's an interactive book with exercises that
will help you think creatively by asking you to visualize your
life. It is full of insights learned from wise people who have
lived the longest. It is organized into the four themes of Love,
Purpose, Well-Being, and Friendship, and contains insights that
will help you love better, find purpose, practice well-being, and
make friends. Drawing on Birsel's year-long codesign research with
older people, Design the Long Life You Love offers readers of all
ages-from those in their twenties and thirties just starting out,
to those in mid-life looking for a change, to those in later life
who are the experts for us all-thought-provoking questions,
exercises for self-exploration, and interviews with innovative
entrepreneurs and thought-leaders to guide them on their own
journeys of crafting the next phase of life. Focusing on four keys
areas-Love, Purpose, Well-Being, and Friendship-this book pairs
life lessons from people who've lived the longest with design tools
to help you plan your own long life, whether you're looking ahead
to retirement, a home post-children, or starting a new project that
makes you come alive. Playfulness is key to creating a long life,
and readers will find that reflected in this joy-filled book.
Whimsical, two-color drawings, illustrated interviews with
thought-leaders, and interactive exercises will put you in the
mindset of a designer as you foster creativity and explore what
your own long life can look like. When it comes to our lives, we
are our own innovators-so let's begin to learn how to do just that.
Welcome to Design the Long Life You Love!
In Transcend, famed futurist Ray Kurzweil and his coauthor Terry
Grossman, MD, present a cutting edge, accessible program based on
the vanguard in nutrition and science. They've distilled thousands
of scientific studies to make the case that new developments in
medicine and technology will allow us to radically extend our life
expectancies and slow the aging process.
Transcend gives you the practical tools you need to live long
enough (and remain healthy long enough) to take full advantage of
the biotech and nanotech advances that have already begun and will
continue to occur at an accelerating pace during the years ahead.
To help you remember the nine key components of the program, Ray
and Terry have arranged them into a mnemonic: Talk with your
doctor, Relaxation, Assessment, Nutrition, Supplements, Calorie
reduction, Exercise, New technologies, Detoxification.
This easy-to-follow program will help you transcend the boundaries
of your genetic legacy and live
long enough to live forever.
From savoring the "here and now" to preparing for our glorious
future in heaven, "Living Somewhere Between Estrogen and Death" by
conference speaker Barbara Johnson is your wise and witty guide to
the joys and challenges of aging gracefully.
What does a free-spirited, fifty-something professional do when she
breaks up with her non-committal Buddhist boyfriend and longs for a
life partner? She holds a 'letting go' ceremony with the boyfriend,
challenges herself to go on 50 dates, takes a few lovers, and
voila! Finding Mr. Right becomes a sexy dating project. Set in the
SF Bay Area world of personal growth workshops and spiritual
ceremonies, Fifty First Dates after Fifty traces the adventurous
path of Carolyn's universal quest for love. The goal of fifty pulls
her forward through the highs and lows of dating-magical and
ecstatic, pining and painful-while her heart soars, falls, and
keeps on going. Buoyed by her dating project, she avoids settling
for the wrong guy, discovers the type of man she wants, reconciles
a love of independence and sex with her desire for commitment and
emotional connection, and finds the unique partner for her. This
upbeat memoir about the search for a partner in midlife is also a
celebration of a woman's unabashed sexuality. Erotic in places,
funny in others, it offers a positive view of dating as an
enjoyable journey of self-discovery and self-love along the way to
one's own Mr. Right.
When she started working with the aged more than forty years ago,
Ann Burack-Weiss began storing the knowledge and skills she thought
would help when she got old herself. It was not until she hit her
mid-seventies that she realized she had packed sneakers to climb
Mount Everest, not anticipating the crevices and chasms that
constitute the rocky terrain of old age. The professional
gerontological and social work literature offered little help, so
she turned to the late-life works of beloved women authors who had
bravely climbed the mountain and sent back news from the summit.
Maya Angelou, Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, Joan Didion, Marguerite
Duras, M. F. K. Fisher, Doris Lessing, Mary Oliver, Adrienne Rich,
May Sarton, and Florida Scott-Maxwell were among the many guides
she turned to for inspiration. In The Lioness in Winter,
Burack-Weiss blends an analysis of key writings from these and
other famed women authors with her own wisdom to create an
essential companion for older women and those who care for them.
She fearlessly examines issues such as living with loss, finding
comfort and joy in unexpected places, and facing disability and
death. This book is filled with powerful passages from women who
turned their experiences of aging into art, and Burack-Weiss ties
their words to her own struggles and epiphanies, framing their
collective observations with key insights from social work
practice.
Empowerment to Find Your True Life PurposeIn this step-by-step
guide, powerhouse Tory Archbold shares her proven principles for
success in building entrepreneurial empires. This powerful book for
women leaders demonstrates how trusting your intuition and stepping
into your power can break you free of judgment, ignite self-belief,
and finally attract the richness you deserve! Staggering success
starts within. Are you in a career you never wanted? Are you
disconnected from yourself? Are you at a crossroads in life and
feeling unsure? Self-Belief is Your Superpower is the book for you.
Combining entrepreneurial and personal development, spiritual
self-help, and self-esteem for women, this book takes a holistic
approach to success, ensuring readers emerge as truly powerful
women. Books this impactful are hard to come by-so grab your copy
today! Changing to thrive-from success to success. Author Tory
Archbold is one of the most powerful and connected women in
Australia, but she wasn't always. With hustle, instincts, heart,
and kinship, she found her life purpose and success at home and
work-and under her guide, you can, too. This guide is filled with
helpful and impactful principles for success and balance as you
navigate your new journey. Inside, discover how to : Create a happy
heart and attract the life you truly deserve Find your life purpose
with these principles for success Use self-belief to break free of
judgment and give yourself permission to shine If you enjoy
professional development books or books for powerful women, books
like 8 Secrets to Powerful Manifesting, How to Change, or I Will
Not Die an Unlived Life, you'll love Self-Belief Is Your
Superpower.
For the more than eighty million Americans who diet regularly--and
without success--this amazing new program, based on ten years of
proven clinical results, offers a revolutionary approach to
nutrition that can safely curb your cravings and make you feel
better in less than twenty-four hours. The Diet Cure begins with an
8-Step Quick Symptom Questionnaire that helps readers identify
their unique underlying biochemical imbalances, such as depleted
brain chemistry caused by too much dieting, hormonal
irregularities, blood-sugar swings, food allergies, thyroid
dysfunction, and a deficiency of "good" fats. Then it provides
targeted strategies and nutritional guidelines to correct those
imbalances, along with meal plans, tasty recipes, and inspiring
case histories. Using amino acids to jump-start the program,
readers create a safe, customized, easy-to-follow plan to end their
food obsessions and attain their ideal healthy weight for good.
Fighting midlife inertia, Sherry Stanfa-Stanley chose to stare down
fear through The 52/52 Project: a year of weekly new experiences
designed to push her far outside her comfort zone. These ranged
from visiting a nude beach with her seventy-five-year-old mother in
tow to taking a road trip with her ex-husband-and then another one
with his girlfriend. She also went on a raid with a vice squad and
SWAT team, exfoliated a rhinoceros (inadvertently giving him an
erection), and crashed a wedding (where she accidentally caught the
bouquet). While finding her courage in the most unlikely of
circumstances, Sherry ultimately found herself. For midlifers,
fatigued parents, and anyone who may be discontent with their life
and looking to shake things up, try new things, or just escape,
Finding My Badass Self is proof it's never too late to reinvent
yourself-and that the best bucket list of all may be an unbucket
list.
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