A Short Guide To Growing Older

Author : Rosemary Sassoon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1913208117

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A Short Guide to Growing Older by Rosemary Sassoon Pdf

Do many of us sit down before retirement and talk about what the change in our lives might mean? For that matter, do any of us realise what real old age might involve until it is upon us? Few of us seem to visualise what it might be like growing older, or what we might do to prepare ourselves for the time when we may become less physically active or have fewer interests to occupy us. A Short Guide to Growing Older is a concise and inspiring guide by Rosemary Sassoon to encourage readers to live the best that they can do in their later years. The book covers planning for your future, harnessing your creativity, getting involved in new business or social activities, volunteering and connecting with the community, the benefits of recording family history, no longer getting old but 'being old' and then finally, decision time.

Author : Steven Petrow
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780806541020

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Stupid Things I Won't Do When I Get Old by Steven Petrow Pdf

For fans of David Sedaris and Nora Ephron, here is a humorous, irreverent, and poignant look at the gifts, stereotypes, and inevitable challenges of aging, based on the wildly popular New York Times essay from award-winning journalist Steven Petrow. Soon after his 50th birthday, Steven Petrow began assembling a list of “things I won’t do when I get old”—mostly a catalog of all the things he thought his then 70-something year old parents were doing wrong. That list, which included “You won’t have to shout at me that I’m deaf,” and “I won’t blame the family dog for my incontinence,” became the basis of this rousing collection of do’s and don’ts, wills and won’ts that is equal parts hilarious, honest, and practical. The fact is, we don’t want to age the way previous generations did. “Old people” hoard. They bore relatives—and strangers—with tales of their aches and pains. They insist on driving long after they’ve become a danger to others (and themselves). They eat dinner at 4pm. They swear they don’t need a cane or walker (and guess what happens next). They never, ever apologize. But there is another way . . . In Stupid Things I Won’t Do When I Get Old, Petrow candidly addresses the fears, frustrations, and stereotypes that accompany aging. He offers a blueprint for the new old age, and an understanding that aging and illness are not the same. As he writes, “I meant the list to serve as a pointed reminder—to me—to make different choices when I eventually cross the threshold to ‘old.’” Getting older is a privilege. This essential guide reveals how to do it with grace, wisdom, humor, and hope. And without hoarding.

Author : Rosemary Sassoon
Publisher : Book Guild Publishing
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781913208707

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A Short Guide to Growing Older by Rosemary Sassoon Pdf

Do many of us sit down before retirement and talk about what the change in our lives might mean? For that matter, do any of us realise what real old age might involve until it is upon us?

Author : Lewis Richmond
Publisher : Avery
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781592407477

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Aging as a Spiritual Practice by Lewis Richmond Pdf

Offers a Buddhist perspective on aging well, with anecdotes of the author's experiences with illness, aging, and transformation, and guided meditations.

Author : Wendy Lustbader
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-18
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781101547670

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Life Gets Better by Wendy Lustbader Pdf

The acclaimed author of What's Worth Knowing reveals the truth about aging: Old age often offers a richer, better, and more self-assured life than youth. From our earliest lives, we are told that our youth will be the best time of our lives-that the energy and vitality of youth are the most important qualities a person can possess, and that everything that comes after will be a sad decline. But in reality, says Wendy Lustbader, youth is not the golden era it is often made out to be. For many, it is a time riddled with anxiety, angst, confusion, and the torture of uncertainty. Conversely, the media often feeds us a vision of growing older as a journey of defeat and diminishment. They are dead wrong. As Lustbader counters, "Life gets better as we get older, on all levels except the physical." Life Gets Better is not a precious or whimsical tome on the quirky wisdom of the elderly. Lustbader-who has worked for several decades as a social worker specializing in aging issues-conducted firsthand research with aging and elderly people in all walks of life, and she found that they overwhelmingly spoke of the mental and emotional richness they have drawn from aging. Lustbader discovered that rather than experiencing a decline from youth, aging people were happier, more courageous, and more interested in being true to their inner selves than were young people. Life Gets Better examines through first-person stories, as well as Lustbader's own observations, how a lifetime of lessons learned can yield one of the most personally and emotionally fruitful periods of anyone's life. As an eighty-six-year-old who contributed her story to the book noted, "For me, being old is the reward for outlasting all the big and little problems that happen to all of us along life's pathway." The collected stories in Life Gets Better provide a hopeful corrective to the fear of aging aggressively instilled in us by the media. Don't dread the future: The best years of our lives just may be ahead.

Author : Joan Dye Gussow
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781603582926

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Growing, Older by Joan Dye Gussow Pdf

The author describes her life after she loses her husband of forty years to cancer, describing her surprising reaction to his death and how she found contentment in her garden.

Author : Robert L. Weber,Carol Orsborn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781620555132

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The Spirituality of Age by Robert L. Weber,Carol Orsborn Pdf

A compassionate guide for transforming aging into spiritual growth • Engage with 25 key questions guiding you to mine previously untapped veins of inspiration and courage • Find a constructive role for regret and fear and embrace the freedom to become more fully yourself • Draw from both Eastern and Western spiritual traditions and the latest research in psychological and religious theory to cultivate your spiritual potential As we enter the years beyond midlife, our quest for an approach to aging takes on added urgency and becomes even more relevant in our daily lives. Empowering a new generation of seekers to view aging as a spiritual path, authors Robert Weber and Carol Orsborn reveal that it is by engaging with the difficult questions about loss, meaning, and mortality--questions we can no longer put off or ignore--that we continue to grow. In fact, the realization of our full spiritual potential comes about not by avoiding the challenges aging brings our way but by working through them. Addressing head-on how to make the transition from fears about aging into a fuller, richer appreciation of the next phase of our lives, the authors guide you through 25 key questions that can help you embrace the shadow side of aging as well as the spiritual opportunities inherent in growing older. Sharing their stories and wisdom to both teach and demonstrate what it means to feel energized about the possibilities of your later years, they explore how to find a constructive role for regret, shame, and guilt, realize your value to society, and embrace the freedom of your later years to become more fully yourself. Coming from Catholic Jesuit and Jewish backgrounds respectively, as well as drawing from the latest research in psychological and religious theory, Weber and Orsborn provide their own conversational and candid answers to the 25 key questions, supporting their insightful and compassionate guidance with anecdotes, inspirational readings, and spiritual exercises. By engaging deeply with both the shadow and light sides of aging, our spirits not only learn to cope--but also to soar.

Author : de Medeiros, Kate
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447328391

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The short guide to aging and gerontology by de Medeiros, Kate Pdf

As the field of aging and gerontology grows worldwide, this exciting guide introduces students to key issues and concepts. It covers topics related to the phenomena of advancing aging, including how older age has been defined historically, cultural myths related to advanced age, health and function in later life, how older age is financed throughout the world, and other key questions. Taking a multiple-perspective approach (including humanities, social and behavioral sciences and policy studies), the book's features include further reading for each chapter, a glossary of key terms, and tables that provide easy reference points.

Author : Roger Rosenblatt
Publisher : Prelude Books
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-04
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780715642603

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Rules for Ageing by Roger Rosenblatt Pdf

People never learn. They make the same mistakes generation after generation. So here are the things that everyone should learn about life, then hope to remember. With a wry sense of humour, Rules for Ageing presents the most realistic, practical, pleasurable and, most importantly, painless advice you will ever receive. This book offers timeless advice for anyone still young enough to learn, and richly amusing reflections on life for those who have seen it all before.

Author : Kate de Medeiros
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447328384

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The Short Guide to Aging and Gerontology by Kate de Medeiros Pdf

The Short Guide to Aging and Gerontology provides a concise and authoritative overview of key issues related to age, including how old age has been viewed historically and across cultures, what we know about health and function in later life, and how older age is financed throughout the world, among other questions. Also including current research on policy and practice and detailed suggestions for further reading, it is an important resource both for anyone new to gerontology as well as established scholars and practitioners in the field.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Adjustment (Psychology) in old age
ISBN : 0600565416

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Coming of Age by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dale Larsen,Sandy Larsen
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830862733

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Growing Older & Wiser by Dale Larsen,Sandy Larsen Pdf

You can't change the fact that you are getting older. And, indeed, you may not want to! Age brings many gifts and opportunities for continued growth. In this nine-session LifeGuide® Bible Study, Dale and Sandy Larsen help you discover the Bible's perspective on aging. You'll discover how God can effectively and powerfully use those who have grown wiser with the passing years. This LifeGuide Bible Study in IVP's revised format features questions for starting group discussions and for meeting God in personal reflection, as well as a new "Now or Later" section following each session to help you act on what you learn. For over three decades LifeGuide Bible Studies have provided solid biblical content and raised thought-provoking questions—making for a one-of-a-kind Bible study experience for individuals and groups. This series has more than 130 titles on Old and New Testament books, character studies, and topical studies. PDF download with a single-user license; available from InterVarsity Press and other resellers.

Author : Roger Landry
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781626340404

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Live Long, Die Short by Roger Landry Pdf

Over a decade ago, a landmark ten-year study by the MacArthur Foundation shattered the stereotypes of aging as a process of slow, genetically determined decline. Researchers found that that 70 percent of physical aging, and about 50 percent of mental aging, is determined by lifestyle, the choices we make every day. That means that if we optimize our lifestyles, we can live longer and “die shorter”—compress the decline period into the very end of a fulfilling, active old age. Dr. Roger Landry and his colleagues have spent years bringing the MacArthur Study’s findings to life with a program called Masterpiece Living. In Live Long, Die Short, Landry shares the incredible story of that program and lays out a path for anyone, at any point in life, who wants to achieve authentic health and empower themselves to age in a better way. Writing in a friendly, conversational tone, Dr. Landry encourages you to take a “Lifestyle Inventory” to assess where your health stands now and then leads you through his “Ten Tips,” for successful aging, each of which is backed by the latest research, real-life stories, and the insights Landry—a former Air Force surgeon and current preventive medicine physician—has gained in his years of experience. The result is a guide that will reshape your conception of what it means to grow old and equip you with the tools you need to lead a long, healthy, happy life.

Author : Kerrie Eyers,Gordon Parker,Henry Brodaty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135709150

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Managing Depression, Growing Older by Kerrie Eyers,Gordon Parker,Henry Brodaty Pdf

Awarded the book prize for 2012 by the Australasian Journal on Ageing! Even when he’s grey around the muzzle, the black dog of depression can still deliver a ferocious bite. Depression can strike at any age, and it may appear for the first time as we get older, as a result of life circumstances or our genetic makeup. While older people face the same kinds of mental health issues as younger people, they can find it more difficult to deal with them owing to the stressors which accumulate with age. There is also a high incidence of undiagnosed depression in older age, presenting extra challenges for carers. Managing Depression Growing Older offers a systematic guide to identifying depression in older people, supporting them at home or in an aged care setting, and the importance of diet, exercise and attitude in recovery. It is essential reading for anyone who works with the elderly.

Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691167701

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How to Grow Old by Marcus Tullius Cicero Pdf

Timeless wisdom on growing old gracefully from one of ancient Rome's greatest philosophers Worried that old age will inevitably mean losing your libido, your health, and possibly your marbles too? Well, Cicero has some good news for you. In How to Grow Old, the great Roman orator and statesman eloquently describes how you can make the second half of life the best part of all—and why you might discover that reading and gardening are actually far more pleasurable than sex ever was. Filled with timeless wisdom and practical guidance, Cicero's brief, charming classic—written in 44 BC and originally titled On Old Age—has delighted and inspired readers, from Saint Augustine to Thomas Jefferson, for more than two thousand years. Presented here in a lively new translation with an informative new introduction and the original Latin on facing pages, the book directly addresses the greatest fears of growing older and persuasively argues why these worries are greatly exaggerated—or altogether mistaken. Montaigne said Cicero's book "gives one an appetite for growing old." The American founding father John Adams read it repeatedly in his later years. And today its lessons are more relevant than ever in a world obsessed with the futile pursuit of youth.