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You’re likely to live longer than you think. Today’s 50-year-olds could have an astounding 36 or more years of life. What’s your dream life for your later years? When We’re 64 is a friendly, practical guide to preparing for what could be the best years of your life - from the essentials on work and how to fund retirement to volunteering, where to live and what kind of housing you’ll need. It covers how to stay healthy - and still live a full life if you get a health condition - and reveals how your attitude to ageing could actually increase your lifespan.

Over the Hill and Up the Wall is an affectionate, funny look at the frictions of taking a more active role in our elders' lives. It's a nod to every child who has waited three hours for a parent to fasten their seatbelt, and every parent whose child assumes they can't count to twenty. And, if your parents are just hitting middle age, it may well be a warning of things to come!

HERRAMIENTAS Y CONSEJOS PARA ABORDAR LA ENFERMEDAD. La demencia, más allá de una simple pérdida de memoria asociada a la vejez, representa un complejo conjunto de trastornos que afecta a la vida de quienes la padecen y supone un camino repleto de dudas y obstáculos para familiares y amigos. Este libro proporciona una completa mirada sobre los diferentes tipos de demencias, más allá del conocido alzhéimer, y revela cómo afectan y se manifiestan en cada persona.

Lessons at the Halfway Point is a deeply thought-provoking look at one man’s courageous journey to understand life from the perspective of having just turned 40. It is both a wry reflection on the past as well as an optimistic look to a challenging future. Nothing escapes Michael Levine’s critical eye, insightful mind, and often humorous spin on our world and ourselves.

Jean Carnahan was the first lady of Missouri when her husband, Governor Mel Carnahan, who was running for the U.S. Senate, and their son, were killed in a plane crash. When Mel Carnahan was elected posthumously (beating John Ashcroft), Jean agreed to take his seat in Washington and served in the U.S. Senate during 9/11, the anthrax attacks, and the vote to go to war in Iraq. During a time of intense and almost unimaginable personal loss, she managed to keep her head up and her heart open.

This book is for anyone who has responsibility to gain care for a dependent adult. Learn about aging, types of care, and considerations for selecting care on behalf of a dependent adult. You'll also learn how to locate local care resources.

Truth, Lies & Alzheimer's: Its Secret Faces is a concise guide to navigating the heartbreaking challenges of having a loved one diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias.

Kiss Tomorrow Hello brings together the experiences and reflections of women as they embark on a new stage of life. The 25 stellar writers gathered here explore a wide range of concerns, including keeping love and sex alive, discovering family secrets, negotiating the demands of illness and infertility, letting children go, making peace with parents, and contemplating plastic surgery. The tales are true, the confessions candid, and the humor infectious.

If you’re over 60, living alone, and wondering how to find joy in independence while maintaining your health and happiness... Then it’s time to redefine aging and thrive! Are you struggling with feelings of isolation and extreme loneliness? Do financial responsibilities and budgeting on a fixed income seem daunting? Are concerns about your physical and mental health keeping you up at night? Worried about home safety, accidents, and routine maintenance? Fearing stagnation and loss of purpose as you age?

"Mom and Dad need help with all their stuff, and honestly, I'm getting worn out trying to help them." When seniors are downsizing from the house they've been in for over 50 years, it can be overwhelming. Repeatedly we hear: "I don't know where to start." Often there are tears. They need help dealing with all the stuff - whether it is the stuff in their home or the emotional stuff they are faced with. Boomer kids are looking for direction too.

Right now, all across the world, many people are losing hope. It is being replaced by fear - fear of the unknown, fear of poverty, fear of a global pandemic; fear of death and violence, fear of turmoil and social upheaval. We are in the middle of transition, and change frightens people. My primary purpose for writing this book was to rekindle hope within the hearts and minds of humanity, especially my fellow Christians, because we are the ones who harbor the ultimate hope of the universe.

After 68 -year-old David Granger crashes his BMW, medical tests reveal a brain tumor that he readily attributes to his wartime Agent Orange exposure. He wakes up from surgery repeating a name no one in his civilian life has ever heard - that of a Native American soldier whom he was once ordered to discipline. David decides to return something precious he long ago stole from the man he now calls Clayton Fire Bear. It might be the only way to find closure in a world increasingly at odds with the one he served to protect.

This self-hypnosis book is a powerful and innovative approach to increasing personal attraction, combining various elements to enhance effectiveness and help you improve your memory quickly. This book is the primary tool for inducing a hypnotic state characterized by deep relaxation, heightened focus, and increased suggestibility. During this phase, you'll receive suggestions and imagery designed to help you improve your memory and promote positive change.

ARE YOU TIRED OF LIVING IN FEAR OF FALLS AND THE NEGATIVE IMPACT THEY CAN HAVE ON YOUR LIFE AS A SENIOR? As you age falls become increasingly dangerous, resulting in serious injuries such as hip fractures, head trauma, and loss of independence. Even the fear of falling can limit your activity and lead to a decline in overall health and well-being. This comprehensive guide provides a simple yet effective solution to help you prevent falls and improve your balance and confidence. Written by Noko Yoga, a registered yoga instructor, certified strength coach with a master’s degree in ...

All of us are familiar with the fairy tales of youth where the young hero and heroine fall in love, defeat their enemies, marry, and live happily ever after. The fairy tales gathered here are about what happens next, when the Prince goes bald and the Princess has a midlife crisis. They portray middle-aged men and women facing the special issues dealing with crisis, aging and mortality, and the desire for renewal.

"There is no set of “directions” for caring for a person with Alzheimer’s or a related dementia disorder. Each caregiving journey is unique, and will be in a constant state of change as the disease progresses. However, having a start point in preparing for and going along this journey helps to create a lasting partnership with the person you care for, the care team you build along the way, and may come to rely upon throughout the caregiving journey.

Everyone is a potential caregiver; sometimes caring for multiple generations of family members at once. This is a role many of us are ill-prepared for and can overwhelm us. Where do we turn for advice and assistance? What to Do About Mama offers guidance to present and future caregivers, based on the pragmatic and emotional, real-life experiences of the coauthors and other caregivers who have openly and honestly shared their challenges, their heartaches, and their joys in caregiving. It isn't a book by experts, but by regular people in the trenches, people like you.

Use this powerful guidebook to eliminate the stress and anxiety of retirement planning! Everybody grows old, which means individuals who work hard and sacrifice much each and every day also eventually get grey hair and wrinkles by the time they retire. It's not about the physical effects of growing up, though. It's about the development of your life's value and the assurance that you'll reap the fruits of your labor when you retire.

Remember Me? is a memoir about caring for a parent with dementia and the memories that resurface in the process. In her first book, Shobna Gulati sets out to reclaim her mother's past after her death, and in turn, discovers a huge amount about herself and their relationship. Remember Me? captures the powerful emotions that these memories hold to both Shobna and her mother; secrets they had collectively buried and also the concealment of her mother's condition. What ensues is a story of cultural assimilation, identity and familial shame.

Contemporary culture is permeated with the caustic message that nothing is more important than youth and that the natural aging process is to be dreaded, denied, postponed, avoided at all costs. The media crams our minds full of dreadful data of aging as a dire collection of disease, devastation, and loss. Cultural perspectives foster a fear of aging that dramatically affects our experience of growing older.