Growing Older Thinking Younger

Author : Steven Petrow
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : Keith A. Haemmelmann
Publisher : The Pilgrim Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780829819816

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Growing Older, Thinking Younger by Keith A. Haemmelmann Pdf

Baby Boomers are maturing, more Boomer than baby, and this generation redefines what it means to age gracefully. Growing Older, Thinking Younger Ministry to Boomers helps church leaders to define this generation within the life of their church community. Discover what successful ministry with aging members of your congregation looks like. Clergy will learn how the church can reach out to this large segment and adapt to their needs as they move into retirement. Haemmelmann reveals to readers what boomers look like, what is important to them and how church fits into their everyday lives. He illustrates for readers how to propel your ministries with older adults forward as they enter their golden years.

Author : Ellen Wood
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1461113725

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Think and Grow Young by Ellen Wood Pdf

Why Ellen Wood's Anti-Aging Program Is UniqueSpend two minutes in Ellen's company and you'll feel her joie de vivre and marvel at her youthfulness. That's because Ellen is living proof that her "Think and Grow Young" program works!Born on November 18, 1936, Ellen wasn't always like this. After watching her mother waste away with Alzheimer's, Ellen found herself starting on the same path of progressive deterioration. Then in 2004 she “woke up” and began a daily practice using the methods in this book. She has since added others which she shares in her blog on http://www.howtogrowyounger.com.Ellen's anti-aging program combines knowledge from leading edge science – including neuroscience and epigenetics – with practices used for centuries to quiet the mind and empower the spirit. Even though Ellen has the dreaded Alzheimer's gene, she knows the mind can turn genes on and off and her daily practices are intended to keep that gene from becoming expressed. In this way she is an effective role model for Baby Boomers who are taking care of parents with dementia and worrying that the same thing might happen to them.Another reason Ellen's program is unique? For her, Growing Young is not a destination. It's not a promise of youthfulness someday in the future. Her program is a journey from the inside out that infuses each day with joy. It's about releasing stress, the number one aging factor, and having inner peace – not by cutting out the noise of life or the challenge of relationships – but instead being in the midst of all that noise and challenge while being in harmony with your heart and spirit. Her program of Grow Young action steps shows you how to use your spiritual power and your mind to experience life with vigor and passion, look great and share joy and love. By growing young, you can be of service and become a role model for the rest of the world. The audio version of "Think and Grow Young" is the GOLD winner of the Nautilus Book Awards in the Audio Books category. Ellen's website is http://www.howtogrowyounger.com, where you can sign up for her free gifts."Think and Grow Young" was previously published as "The Secret Method for Growing Younger."

Author : Ron Kaiser
Publisher : Mental Health Gym
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1947368974

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Rejuvenaging by Ron Kaiser Pdf

This book describes the new concept of REJUVENAGING - The process of growing older in an active and positive and enthusiastic manner utilizing a set of principles and practical guidance to maximize health and fitness, intellectual functioning, and social involvements.

Author : Dr. Alan D. Castel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780190279998

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Better with Age by Dr. Alan D. Castel Pdf

Age is an important number, but it can also be deceiving. After 40, most people say they feel younger than their years, some lie about their age, and many attempt to hide the signs of growing old. Better with Age addresses the many myths and paradoxes about the aging process. Although most people think of their later years in terms of decline, they can be one of the best times in life. This book presents the latest scientific research about the psychology of aging, coupled with insights from those who have succeeded in doing it well, such as Maya Angelou, Bob Newhart, Jared Diamond, John Glenn, and John Wooden. We are all aging, and many people are concerned about what to expect with advancing years. Retirement, happiness, and brain health are some of the many topics covered in this book. Better with Age shows what we can do now, at any stage in life, to make sure we enjoy old age.

Author : Wendy Lustbader
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : Robert Bailor
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781728372419

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Getting Older by Robert Bailor Pdf

Is getting older to be feared or embraced? Is it merely a matter of deterioration and death or is it a platform for a new lifestyle with new opportunities and new joys? This is a story about getting older. The main character, Don, a 73-year-old retired widower is initially confused and depressed about getting older. The book takes him through the fears, the challenges and the merits of being a senior citizen. It does so on three levels of narrative. First, there is the primary story of Don’s sharing in one-on-one counseling to help him resolve his issues with aging. The Epilogue is a surprise conclusion to this counseling journey. Second, there is the presentation of Don’s own internal dialogue regarding getting older with his inner reflections combined with his counseling journal entries. Third, there are five short stories spread out over the journal entries which emphasize the truths that Don is trying to get at with his journal entries. There have been several notable books written about aging, its causes and its challenges. Yet, there has never been a book like this one. Through the art of fiction it gets to the core of the questions haunting the prospects of getting older in a way that readers can personally identify with and use to resolve their own issues with aging. If readers follow the intertwining stories, perhaps they will discover answers for themselves, at least that is the intention of this book.

Author : Joan T. Erber,Lenore T. Szuchman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781118521458

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Great Myths of Aging by Joan T. Erber,Lenore T. Szuchman Pdf

Great Myths of Aging looks at the generalizations and stereotypes associated with older people and, with a blend of humor and cutting-edge research, dispels those common myths. Reader-friendly structure breaks myths down into categories such as Body, Mind, and Living Contexts; and looks at myths from “Older people lose interest in sex” to “Older people are stingy” Explains the origins of myths and misconceptions about aging Looks at the unfortunate consequences of anti-aging stereotypes for both the reader and older adults in society

Author : Angela Brownemiller Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-09
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780313353918

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Will You Still Need Me? by Angela Brownemiller Ph.D. Pdf

This insightful and moving book looks at how people of various ages view the process of aging and the social and emotional perspectives it evokes. Will You Still Need Me?: Feeling Wanted, Loved, and Meaningful as We Age is a touching and incisive book organized around interviews with individuals of various ages who have responded to questions about aging. The interviewees offer their unguarded thoughts about aging with a significant other—or alone. They reveal their self perceptions, their feelings about the future, their self-image as it relates to aging, and their expectations and impressions of aging itself. They also share their concerns that with aging comes not only possible loneliness, but also meaninglessness and even uselessness. Psychotherapist Angela Browne-Miller weaves the findings into a philosophical, research-based overview of cross-generational concerns and feelings about aging. Her book opens a window into the hearts and minds of our parents, our peers, and our children as they look at the aging process and at how individuals, society, and families treat aging. Through the sensitive, up-close-and-personal, bird's-eye view of the people interviewed for this book, aging unfolds into a deeply moving experience, one we all share.

Author : Daniel J. Levitin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780735236905

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Successful Aging by Daniel J. Levitin Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BESTSELLER SILVER MEDALIST for the 2022 Axiom Business Book Award for Success/Motivation/Coaching SHORTLISTED for the 2021 Science Writers and Communicators of Canada Book Award Author of the iconic bestsellers This Is Your Brain on Music and The Organized Mind, Daniel Levitin turns his keen insights to what happens in our brains as we age, why we should think about health span, not life span, and, based on a rigorous analysis of neuroscientific evidence, what you can do to make the most of your seventies, eighties, and nineties today no matter how old you are now. Successful Aging uses research from developmental neuroscience and the psychology of individual differences to show that sixty-plus years is a unique developmental stage that, like infancy or adolescence, has its own demands and distinct advantages. Levitin looks at the science behind what we all can learn from those who age joyously, as well as how to adapt our culture to take full advantage of older people's wisdom and experience. Throughout his exploration of what aging really means, Levitin reveals resilience strategies and practical, cognitive enhancing tricks everyone should do as they age. The book is packed with accessible and discussable takeaways, providing great material for reading groups and media coverage. Successful Aging inspires a powerful new approach to how readers think about our final decades, and it will revolutionize the way we plan for old age as individuals, family members, and citizens within a society where the average life expectancy continues to rise.

Author : Nancy K. Schlossberg
Publisher : APA Life Tools
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1433827492

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Too Young to be Old by Nancy K. Schlossberg Pdf

The latest take on aging well from Nancy K. Schlossberg looks at the basic issues facing a growing group of Americans over 55-health, finances, and relationships. With this book, readers will be able to think about and develop a deliberate plan to age happily.

Author : Louise Aronson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781620405482

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Elderhood by Louise Aronson Pdf

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction A New York Times Bestseller Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Winner of the WSU AOS Bonner Book Award Winner of the 2022 At Home With Growing Older Impact Award As revelatory as Atul Gawande's Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson's Elderhood is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life. For more than 5,000 years, "old" has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans are living longer than ever before, we've made old age into a disease, a condition to be dreaded, denigrated, neglected, and denied. Reminiscent of Oliver Sacks, noted Harvard-trained geriatrician Louise Aronson uses stories from her quarter century of caring for patients, and draws from history, science, literature, popular culture, and her own life to weave a vision of old age that's neither nightmare nor utopian fantasy--a vision full of joy, wonder, frustration, outrage, and hope about aging, medicine, and humanity itself. Elderhood is for anyone who is, in the author's own words, "an aging, i.e., still-breathing human being."

Author : Outlet,Outlet Book Company Staff,Random House Value Publishing Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1985-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0517602393

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Getting Older Growing Younger by Outlet,Outlet Book Company Staff,Random House Value Publishing Staff Pdf

Author : Rosemary Sassoon
Publisher : Book Guild Publishing
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : 53,9 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.