Kategoria BISAC: Family & Relationships >> Life Stages - Later Years

Aging...Get Over It is the first of the books Baby Boomers and GenXers need to read to gain mastery over their later years.

Aging...Get Over It eases the effort of facing the realities of aging and offers workable solutions. The lessons and exercises are divided into two categories and are further broken down into six tasks:

Part l. Think Right: Healthy Mind, Satisfying Family Relationships, and Strong Faith
Part 2. Do Right: Healthy Body, Financial-Legal Arrangements, and Rewarding Community and Care Planning.

This is a highly practical and gutsy survival...

In recent years, the aim of research on aging has shifted from prolonging life to fostering healthy and cognitively robust aging of older people. In order to improve the quality of life of older people, we need to better understand cognitive aging as well as bodily aging.

Health and Cognition in Old Age assembles the cream of research across varied medical, mental health, and social disciplines, and demonstrates how this knowledge can lead to improved outcomes for older people. The first half of this expert volume discusses biomedical and life course factors in aging,...

If you are middle age and beyond, you need to think about the kind of old person you will be because you will be one before you know it. The time to start is now, well before you reach 65 years of age. If you are already 65 or over it is not too late to change.

Every day 10,000 people in the US turn 65. They may have plans for doing things, but most are without a paradigm for being content if they do not have the financial means or health to do them. Using humorous quotes, antidotes and illustrations throughout the text, the author draws from a variety of disciplines to present a...

The collective, inclusive, and intersectional framework used in this book speaks to the significance of understanding aging across diverse cultures from multiple perspectives, but still as a shared human experience.The underlying message of the book is that although we are unique and different in our aging processes, we are ultimately connected through this physical, mental and spiritual experience of aging.Thus, regardless of whether we are service providers, service recipients, educators or merely fellow human beings, it is important that we approach the aging experience through a...

This book explores the unresolved paradox at the heart of population aging, namely how to account for the fact that death rates from most non-communicable diseases rise as people age, yet aggregate death rates from such diseases have decreased overall despite an increasingly aging population. It provides a long-term historical perspective on this issue, presenting evidence that the underpinnings of modern aging extend as far back as the nineteenth century, and that aging has boosted per capita healthcare spending.

The book first outlines the three eras of the Epidemiologic...

This is a no nonsense guide to finding yourself and either rediscovering the passion in your relationship and making it flourish or realising it is time to move on and leave with love and integrity. In short you will find the purpose and happiness you have been craving.

Author, Gina Mitchell is the founder of Positive Life Shift. She has successfully helped people from Australia and around the world with their relationships and their lives in general since 2012. Gina uses simple and effective strategies to help people overcome issues in their lives, particularly in their...