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Are you a Christian grandma seeking to nurture your faith while caring for your body? This unique book is tailored specifically for grandmas like you, providing a harmonious blend of gentle workouts, heartfelt prayers, and uplifting devotions.

What happens when you mix modern medical entrepreneurship with one of the most ancient of human desires---the desire to live forever? The answer is today's multibillion-dollar antiaging industry, which promises everything from restoring lost vitality to actually turning back the hands of time for aging boomers. But who, exactly, makes up the antiaging movement, and what do they expect from the vast and growing antiaging apothecary?

Some days you eat salads and go to the gym. Some days you eat cupcakes and refuse to put on pants. It's called balance. This is only some of the extraordinary wisdom that Sheila L. Llewellyn is going to share with you.

Retirement planning isn't just about money. It is also about time and how you will spend it. Baby Boomers break the mold again! This time with their vital longevity. People retiring today need to plan for 25-plus good years that may well lie ahead of them. That's more than 1,300 weeks! More than 9,100 days! What are you planning to do over those 218,000 hours?

Listen to this book and learn how to easily improve your prostate health. Testosterone can be changed by the body into two other hormones—estrogen and DHT (dihydrotestosterone). High levels of each of these hormones will negatively affect the prostate. High levels of estrogen cause feminizing effects in a man, as well as causing prostate inflammation and enlargement.

For nearly a decade, Jackie watched over her father's care. She quickly found her world filled with adult diapers, a pharmacy of pills, and days heavily laced in utter boredom. As the days melted together, Jackie came to understand what her father was teaching her - how to live in constant gratitude and with a heart full of love.

Prescription for Aging Well is a beacon of hope, reminding listeners that aging is not a period of decline, but an opportunity for growth and self-discovery. It encourages seniors to take an active role in their health, make informed decisions, and embrace the power of healthy habits, nurturing relationships, and a fulfilling lifestyle.

By the time we turn 60 most of us will still have one-third of our lives to live. How well we live these years will depend on our health: are we agile and disease-free? Or dependent on medication and physical assistance? In Staying Alive you'll discover the science on how you can avoid or manage the major diseases that impact us as we age, including heart health, diabetes and dementia, and boost your everyday behaviours to improve your enjoyment of life.

In this powerful, poignant memoir Sam triangulates her own experience with the stories of two other carers, one she admires and one, on some days, she fears she might become: Leonard Woolf, husband to Virginia and F Scott Fitzgerald, husband to Zelda, and a man whose personality made him ill-equipped – in a great many ways – to be a carer for his troubled wife. A mesmerising blend of literary biography and memoir The Fragments of My Father is a compelling and moving account of what it means to be a carer.

A practical, compassionate guide to caring for a loved one with dementia written by an RN with 40 years experience.

Each and every season we go through has a purpose and place in our lives, and each individual season is a preparation for the next season and brings teaching, learning, and growth. It is like a stepping stone to the next level and season. We may feel that our growth and learning is done in our senior season, but I believe we still have much to learn, much to grow, and much to give.

Marc's family is devastated by his father's Alzheimer's diagnosis. After three challenging years, Marc sees new doors open for healing that until now he had not believed were possible. Despite fierce opposition and a ruthless foe, a wondrous journey unfolds before them as the Holy Spirit leads the way to liberation. From Alzheimer's with Love is the true-life story of a six-month journey from deterioration to restoration from this devastating disease.

Although it is the unthinkable, all people think about it at some point, or have it in the back of their minds. Whatever your thoughts about skilled nursing homes are, the images are not always pleasant. Whether you are aging yourself, have aging parents, or have a disability, who will provide for you? Is skilled nursing the answer, and what will it cost? Carefully choosing options, knowing what those selections mean, and demystifying the process is the central theme of Love and Loss: The Storied Nature of Nursing Home Care.

The hilarious and moving story of how a modern woman's life can change utterly in a single year - and how, even when life whacks you in the head, you can find yourself rewarded with grace.

A simple self-help guide to negotiating the complicated maze of retirement issues and continuing care retirement communities. Filled with facts and stats along with simple analysis tools and checklists to effectively evaluate a continuing care retirement community to avoid costly mistakes.

Caring for a loved one at home. What's really involved? And what does it mean for your family and future? Tens of millions of Americans have had these questions and more as they prepare for this unsettling yet necessary task. The Family Caregiver's Guide fills in the gaps, connecting the dots between research and real life. Drawing on the author's extensive caregiving experience, this book provides strategies to care for your loved one, inside and out, as well as for yourself - including how to use your natural skills in your new role, and which skills you may need to add.

How do we look to each other as we grow older? This uplifting collection asks men and women to answer this provocative question. The answers, in the form of evocative poetry and prose, reveal the pleasures of growing older and teach us how to remain active and proud, living out our older years to the fullest potential. You'll delight in learning how the changes that we experience in later life can provide wonderful benefits and newfound happiness.

This audiobook provides information about living arrangements, services, and facilities available for older adults with changing health needs, as well as checklists to help you determine the living situation most appropriate for your loved one.

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.

Rose is delightful, flamboyant, and a widow. Having just lost her husband, Rose's daughter steps in to find Rose increasingly disoriented and forgetful. Even as a nurse, Maureen does not recognize the early signs of her mother's dementia - a diagnosis that changes her mother's life and those close to her. The contrast between the reality of Rose's condition and the "Casablanca Style" in which she lived is stark yet beautiful. This book parallels Still Alice's medical description of the illness but picks up where Still Alice leaves off.