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Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Coping with personal problems > Coping with old age
"It's Never too Late" could save (the rest of) your life. We're all
going to die. Jolting, yes, but an important truth we must face
because most people, when left to their own devices, choose the
easier path of living in fantasy rather than reality. It's high
time we come to terms with our mortality because the outlook for
many of us is one of overwhelming fear and horror about the reality
of growing old in America. What's worse, far too many of us are
well aware of the dire forecast for our future but feel utterly
powerless in its wake. But it doesn't have to be that way. Towards
getting ourselves back on track or helping elder parents and loved
ones do the same, Scott Page gives us easy (and even fun) ways to
develop a workable plan for living out our lives with greater peace
of mind and security regardless of our current age and station in
life---leaving us wondering why we didn't do something about it
sooner. With easy, fast-acting steps to restore hope and faith for
our future, Scott offers a holistic methodology anyone is fully
capable of following if they're willing to get into motion.
An estimated 10,000 baby boomers retire every day, and many of them
are gardeners. As part of maintaining a healthy and active
lifestyle, they need to adapt how they garden to ensure they can
continue enjoying the hobby for years to come. In The Lifelong
Gardener, popular garden speaker Toni Gattone shares adaptive
gardening techniques that help readers garden smarter, not harder.
Gattone offers tried-and-true methods that help eliminate the
physical strain of gardening like buying new ergonomic tools, using
raised beds, making small adjustments like using kneeling pads, and
dozens of simple ways to make the garden comfortable. Throughout,
Gattone maintains a positive and empowering tone that honors the
garden and the gardener and focuses on the joy of aging. The
perfect gift for older home gardeners, The Lifelong Gardener shows
how a little advanced planning can make gardening a safe and fun
daily activity.
Secure your financial and online assets with MemoryBanc Your
Workbook For Organizing Life. Today, more than $58 billion is
sitting with state and federal treasurers representing bank
accounts, insurance, tax returns, and retirement accounts that were
lost in the shuffle of a move, personal crisis, or death. Nearly
half of adults over forty can expect to face a short-term
disability before they reach sixty-five and 70 percent of
American's over sixty-five will need three years of care and
support. MemoryBanc makes it easy to document accounts, usernames,
and medical history so they can be easily found or shared should
they ever be needed by a spouse or loved one. It also helps couples
that divide and conquer stay on the same page and gives individuals
a way to easily hand over important information should it ever be
needed. With the help of MemoryBanc, readers no longer have to
store their information in their heads, on their phones, in a file,
or under a keyboard-they now have one place that captures it all.
Find out how easily it is to secure your assets with MemoryBanc
Your Workbook For Organizing Life.
When you look in the mirror, do you recognize that old woman
looking back at you? Aging doesn't have to mean "getting old." Our
bodies, minds, and faces may change, but we can alter what they
look like, how they behave, and how we feel about them. "Free to Be
Fabulous: 100 Ways to Look and Feel Younger at 40, 50, and Beyond"
shows you how to turn back the clock painlessly in four areas.
We'll start with Beauty and how to make the most of what God gave
us. Beliefs will help us make our minds as sharp as possible and
show how our attitudes determine our happiness. Then, Body will
teach us how to keep everything inside working well and Behavior
will help us relate to others. It takes 21 days to change a habit,
so if you alter one thing every three weeks, you can make 17
modifications in a year. Try these suggestions one at a time, and
you could become a new person by your next birthday!
What You Don't Know about Retirement... will have any retiree
celebrating this milestone with lots of laughs. This entertaining
quiz pokes fun at growing older while celebrating the joy of
retirement. What You Don't Know about Retirement... will provide
endless entertainment for any retirement party and is sure to be a
HIT
Q: Why do new retirees suddenly look ten years younger?
"A: They suddenly feel ten years younger."
""Q: What's the best way for a retiree to make sure his memoirs are
read? "
A: Include lots of clues about hidden money."
In the next 24 years, 78 million Baby Boomers will retire. This
book gives them tools to maintain their active lifestyle for
decades after leaving the workforce. This is a guidebook for
transforming the retirement years into a richly satisfying period
of continuous education, personal growth, and social involvement.
Readers will have access to the latest scientific research and
interviews with experts in this field, resources, informative tips,
and inspiring first-person accounts of the vital benefits of
lifelong learning. Theyll discover why lifelong learning is
important for the aging brain and where to find the newest, most
innovative programs in educational travel, volunteerism, civic
action, and more.
The story of the end-of-life experience of a palliative care
physician who helped thousands of patients to die well. We all die.
Most of us spend the majority of our lives ignoring this
uncomfortable truth, but Dr. Larry Librach dedicated his life and
his career to helping his patients navigate their final journey.
Then, in April 2013, Larry was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic
cancer. Unlike the majority of us, Larry knew the death he wanted.
He wanted to die at home, surrounded by his family: his wife of
forty years, his children, and his grandchildren. He did. He was
peaceful and calm at the end. Larry proved that the "good death"
isn't a myth. It can be done, and he showed us how. Ever the
teacher, Larry made his last journey a teachable moment on how to
die the best death possible, even with a pernicious disease. As
hard as it is to guide patients toward dying well, it is far harder
to live those precepts day by day as the clock ticks down to one's
own death, but Larry, together with author Phil Dwyer, chronicled
his final journey with courage and humour.
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 or bleak. Within this
"dark scenario," a positive existence is possible. Planning Your
Time in Retirement focuses on the variety of free-time activities
available to retirees as related to their physical, social, and
economic situation in old age, helping readers find out what their
passions are, what the possibilities might be, and how to cultivate
their own leisure lifestyle. For some retirees, a post-work
existence consisting of fun works well, for they have managed to
shape an interesting casual leisure lifestyle based on easygoing
activities that make them happy. Seldom included in the popular
image of leisure, however, are other types of leisure that are also
widely available to retirees. Regardless of means, the retirement
years can consist of activities and pastimes that fulfill the
interests and pursuits of any retiree. A variety of exciting
leisure activities exists, which retirees may pursue within their
financial, physical, mental, and geographic limits. This book
provides a guide-the serious leisure perspective-for exploring
these activities and choosing those that fit one's tastes,
aptitudes, and abilities. At its most appealing, a leisure
lifestyle includes a balance of easy-to-do casual interests as well
as serious ones that require knowledge, effort, and perseverance.
For some, enjoyment and fulfillment may come from engaging in
volunteer work, while for others it may involve leisure activities
from which they gain some form of payment. By employing the notion
of positive simplicity-simple living in the domain of leisure-many
people at this stage of life can delight in these final years.
While time and money cannot be ignored, finding those activities
that allow for engagement, reward, and simplicity can result in
days, even years, of leisure that is meaningful, enjoyable,
healthy, and empowering.
Combining retro photographs with witty captions and quotes, this
little book is the perfect way to celebrate becoming Officially
Old.
A New York Times bestselling author and cutting-edge health expert shares her nutrition-based plan for healthy, vibrant longevity.
Welcome to a Radical new view of aging—one that defies conventional wisdom and redefines the aging process with resilience, vitality and grace. You’ll discover the most advanced program that staves off the effects of aging, which includes how to release a lifetime of accumulated toxins and deficiencies—and how to correct and reverse their effects with targeted foods, critical lifestyle tweaks, peptides and signaling molecules for cellular regeneration.
With her trademark no-nonsense style, Ann Louise Gittleman champions a paradigm shift in which your biology is not your biography. By utilizing epigenetics to slow and reverse many of the most worrisome aging conditions, you can preserve your “youth span” and enhance your immunity, heart, brain, muscles, joints, skin, and hair. You can even revitalize your sex drive!
Based on decades of experience and research in breakthrough age-defying and restorative medicine, Radical Longevity will forever change what you think you know about aging. Inside you’ll discover:
- The most essential vitamins, minerals and hormones to reclaim youthful immunity
- The transformative Radical Longevity Power Plan and 5 Day Radical Reset to soothe the gut and revitalize the liver
- How to manipulate your metabolism
- The Cinderella mineral to help prevent memory loss and reverse Alzheimer’s
- How to make your body produce up to fifty percent more “Youth Defying Stem Cells”
- The #1 brain-aging hazard hiding in your home, and how to activate your best self-defense
- The unexpected “forbidden” food that makes your skin, joints, eyes, arteries, and brain feel years younger and much more…
Radical Longevity casts a big and bold new vision of aging that will give you freedom from accepting the limitations that growing older once meant. Look more youthful, feel more agile, and think more clearly as you enter the Radical new era of healthy aging!
This positive, affirming book explores and reviews the meaning and
purpose of our lives. As Christians, ageing gives us the
opportunity to deepen and even transform our spiritual lives. The
Freedom of Years helps those who want to undertake the journey by
examining the ageing task, the inevitable changes and the
possibilities of joy along the way. Read this book, see the
potential and seek to age in the light of your Christian faith.
Incredibly simple, delicious recipes that encourage healthy ageing
and boost immunity, based on Manju Malhi's popular Open Age cookery
classes. Whatever your age, it is beyond doubt that an active
lifestyle and eating a balanced diet is an important part of
maintaining good health. It helps to reduces risk of disease,
infection and other illnesses. But, above all, it can help you feel
your best. As we get older, many of us find our appetite shrinks
because our energy output lessens. However, our fundamental needs
haven't changed. Even if you have a smaller appetite and require
fewer calories, your body still needs the right vitamins, minerals
and nutrients to sustain you. Manju Malhi wants to inspire people
of all ages to enjoy the time they spend in the kitchen and view
cooking as a joy instead of a chore, and she has been awarded the
British Empire Medal for her work with Open Age. The Seasoned
Foodie is a collection of dishes that are easy to follow and will
satisfy both your dietary needs and your love of good food, however
young you feel. Inside you will find simple, tasty recipes that
pack maximum nutrition, such as: - Scandi-style Salmon with Pickled
Potatoes - Herby Pumpkin Soup - Brazilian Black Beans - Jerk
Jambalaya - Oat and Ginger Cookies This collection of delicious
recipes that encourage healthy ageing and boost immunity make you
fall in love with the kitchen again.
Paradox for Life Review explains how older adults' levels of
self-esteem become the lens through which they review their
reminiscences. It shows how three bases for self-esteem the
epigenetic self, the family scripted self, and the metaphysical
self affect the accuracy of this lens. It then describes how life
review groups have used paradoxes drawn from poetry, drama, word
play, intergenerational family dynamics, Eastern and Western
mystical traditions, and personal life experiences to enable
members to discover new lenses for accepting their history with
compassion and wisdom. The book uses the reminiscences of forty-two
older adults to illustrate the positive influence of these
paradoxes in integrating their personal history with a sense of
purpose for their future.
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