Getting Older

Author : Thomas Senior,Cindy Oldham,Cindy Senior
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2000-04
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0740708864

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The Joys of Getting Older by Thomas Senior,Cindy Oldham,Cindy Senior Pdf

"An inspirational look at the beauty found within the Circle of Life." —The Times "A straightforward, clear-cut how-to book for putting a spark (or two!) back into your life. It truly describes the magical beauty to be found in the twilight years." &mdashYule Biyung, author and inspirational speaker Thomas and Cindy Senior are the best-selling husband-and-wife team who authored Retiring Gracefully and Senior Sex: How to Rekindle the Sizzle in Your Bedroom. In The Joys of Getting Older the tradition of their previous books, they have collected all their best advice and share their insights into how you can lead a happy and energetic life after reaching "that certain age." The Seniors are living out their dream retirement in sunny Florida, where hurricanes and theme parks provide routine stimulation in their lives.

Author : Andrew Steele
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780385544931

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Ageless by Andrew Steele Pdf

“A fascinating look at how scientists are working to help doctors treat the aging process itself, helping us all to lead longer, healthier lives.” —Sanjay Gupta, MD Aging—not cancer, not heart disease—is the underlying cause of most human death and suffering. The same cascade of biological changes that renders us wrinkled and gray also opens the door to dementia and disease. We work furiously to conquer each individual disease, but we never think to ask: Is aging itself necessary? Nature tells us it is not: there are tortoises and salamanders who are spry into old age and whose risk of dying is the same no matter how old they are, a phenomenon known as “biological immortality.” In Ageless, Andrew Steelecharts the astounding progress science has made in recent years to secure the same for humans: to help us become old without getting frail, to live longer without ill health or disease.

Author : Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Publisher : Berkley Trade
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Aging
ISBN : 0425157938

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Getting Over Getting Older by Letty Cottin Pogrebin Pdf

"My feminist sisters . . . counsel women to welcome age", writes award-winning author and founder of "Ms". magazine Letty Cottin Pogrebin. "They discern nobility and power in the elder female. So do I, but I'm not in a hurry to "be" one. I hated turning 50, it's as simple as that". With a winning combination of insight and emotional honesty, she shatters myths about everything from menopause to monogamy--and offers women a new, mindful perspective on the middle chapters of their lives.

Author : Carol Ann Morrow
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781497688384

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Getting Older, Growing Wiser by Carol Ann Morrow Pdf

We are all aging. We can view this situation as fraught with danger and decline, or as full of promise and possibility, claims the author.

Author : K'NAAN,Sol Guy
Publisher : Tundra Books
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781770493025

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When I Get Older by K'NAAN,Sol Guy Pdf

“Wavin’Flag” has become an international anthem. Its powerful words of hope have crossed generations and borders, and have made K’NAAN an international star. In his first book for children, When I Get Older, Somali-Canadian poet, rapper, singer, and songwriter K’NAAN tells his own story. Born in Somalia, he grew up in Mogadishu. His grandfather was a renowned poet who passed on his love of words to his grandson. When the Somali Civil War began in 1991, K’NAAN was just thirteen. His mother made the difficult decision to move her family so that they could grow up in safety. First in New York and then in Toronto, K’NAAN faced many challenges. Like so many other immigrants, he had to make a place for himself in a world of alien customs, clothes, and language. His road was a hard one: he lost many friends to violence. But K’NAAN’s love of music, and his enormous talent, became a way for him to connect with his past, with his classmates, and eventually, to millions of people around the world. Not only does K’NAAN tell a story that will inspire and encourage young readers, but he provides a brief history of the Somalian conflict. The lyrics of “Wavin’ Flag” are also included. Born Keinan Abdi Warsame, K’NAAN first came to prominence when he performed a spoken word piece before the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in 1999. A member of the audience, the singer Youssou N’Dour, was so impressed that he asked K’NAAN to take part in an album and to tour with him. Since then, K’NAAN has performed in more than 86 countries and has received many honors, including three Juno Awards and the BBC Radio 3 Award for World Music. During the Vancouver Olympics, he worked with other Canadian musicians and artists under the name Young Artists for Haiti to produce a charity version of “Wavin’ Flag.” The song was adapted again to become the FIFA World Cup theme song. There are now twenty-two versions of the song, which hit #1 in nineteen countries.

Author : Steven Petrow
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : Richard Siegel,Laura Geller
Publisher : Behrman House Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0874419859

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Getting Good at Getting Older by Richard Siegel,Laura Geller Pdf

"A tour for all of us "of a certain age" through the resources and skills to navigate the years between maturity and old age, told with warmth, humor, and more than 4,000 years of Jewish experience to the question of how to shape this new stage of life"--

Author : Wendy Lustbader
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 53,7 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 : Linda Stroh,Karen Brees
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781492666998

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Getting Real about Getting Older by Linda Stroh,Karen Brees Pdf

The first book to open up a real conversation about aging. What has the experience of getting older felt like for you? It seems that life's milestones pass by in a flash: graduating from school, landing your first job, getting married, having kids. Most people look forward to these events and have some expectations about what each life milestone will be like. But what about when you get older? How can you continue to live fully in your sixties, seventies, and beyond? Linda K. Stroh and Karen K. Brees asked nearly one thousand older people about the challenges and joys of growing older and compiled their collective wisdom into this must-have book, focusing on important topics such as: Changing self-identities Friendships and romantic relationships Health, fitness, and self-image Loss Relationships with adult children, grandchildren, and siblings And much more! Full of advice and stories from a wide variety of older people, Getting Real about Getting Older examines love, loss, and changing identities, and will help you take control of your concerns about aging and experience wisdom and joy as an older adult.

Author : Bloomberg News
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781118936542

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Getting Older by Bloomberg News Pdf

A special compilation of 13 Bloomberg News stories about the elderly on topics such as sex, jobs, and retirement. This package includes the following stories: At 77 He Flips Burgers Earning Former Hourly Wage in Week Grandma on Feeding Tube Without Consent Symbolizes Aging Japan Boomer Sex With Dementia Foreshadowed in Nursing Home Torn Apart Germans Exporting Grandma to Poland as Costs Converge With Care Doctor Helps Grandma Die to Avoid Fate of 260,000 Japanese on Feeding Tube Aging Boomers Stump Global Marketers Eyeing $15 Trillion Prize Death Dinners at Baby Boomers’ Tables Take on Taboo Over Dying Sex With Dementia Facing Boomers Spurs Elderly Care Group to Seek Policies At 61 She Lives in Basement While 87-Year-Old Dad Travels World Boomers as Retail Clerks Shows Why Greenspan Saw Low Growth Era Sex in Geriatrics Sets Hebrew Home Apart as Boomers Seize Days Older Americans Shun Retirement at 65 for Risky Startups: Jobs How a 91-Year-Old Geek Helped Keep the Elderly Independent

Author : Richard J. Leider,David Shapiro
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781523092468

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Who Do You Want to Be When You Grow Old? by Richard J. Leider,David Shapiro Pdf

Grow old on purpose. This book invites readers to navigate a purposeful path from adulthood to elderhood with choice, curiosity, and courage. Everyone is getting old; not everyone is growing old. But the path of purposeful aging is accessible to all—and it's fundamental to health, happiness, and longevity. With a focus on growing whole through developing a sense of purpose in later life, Who Do You Want to Be When You Grow Old? celebrates the experience of aging with inspiring stories, real-world practices, and provocative questions. Framed by a long conversation between two old friends, the book reconceives aging as a liberating experience that enables us to become more authentically the person we always meant to be with each passing year. In their bestseller Repacking Your Bags, Richard J. Leider and David A. Shapiro defined the good life as “living in the place you belong, with people you love, doing the right work, on purpose.” This book builds on that definition to offer a purposeful path for living well while aging well.

Author : Barbara V. Sparkman-Wilson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-23
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781469124162

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You Know You're Getting Older When... by Barbara V. Sparkman-Wilson Pdf

You know you are getting older when you read a book entitled You Know You Are Getting Older When . . . I laughed so hard when I was reading this book. On a serious note, those who make fun of older peopleas if he or she will never get oldneed to realize there are but two choices: you either get older or you die a young corpse. I deliberately chose not to write a biography or have a picture of me on this cover. This book is not about me. I want the focus on the message and not the messenger. I have been told throughout my life that I say the things people are thinking but do not have nerve to say.

Author : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Medical
ISBN : PURD:32754077962102

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Getting Older, Staying Healthier by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee Pdf

Author : Joan Dye Gussow
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,6 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 : Bloomberg News
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781119046721

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Getting Older, Enhanced Edition by Bloomberg News Pdf

A special compilation of 13 Bloomberg News stories about the elderly on topics such as sex, jobs, and retirement with accompanying video. This package includes the following stories: At 77 He Flips Burgers Earning Former Hourly Wage in Week Grandma on Feeding Tube Without Consent Symbolizes Aging Japan Boomer Sex With Dementia Foreshadowed in Nursing Home Torn Apart Germans Exporting Grandma to Poland as Costs Converge With Care Doctor Helps Grandma Die to Avoid Fate of 260,000 Japanese on Feeding Tube Aging Boomers Stump Global Marketers Eyeing $15 Trillion Prize Death Dinners at Baby Boomers’ Tables Take on Taboo Over Dying Sex With Dementia Facing Boomers Spurs Elderly Care Group to Seek Policies At 61 She Lives in Basement While 87-Year-Old Dad Travels World Boomers as Retail Clerks Shows Why Greenspan Saw Low Growth Era Sex in Geriatrics Sets Hebrew Home Apart as Boomers Seize Days Older Americans Shun Retirement at 65 for Risky Startups: Jobs How a 91-Year-Old Geek Helped Keep the Elderly Independent