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

As they entered their sixties, authors Gail K. Harris, MEd, LCSW; Marilyn C. Lesser, PhD, LCSW; and Cynthia T. Soloway, JD, MSSW, MA, realized that they all had anxieties and fears about aging. They soon discovered they weren't alone and that many women were looking for support and encouragement as they aged, so they decided to write a guide to accepting and enjoying life after sixty.

They conducted a series of interviews with women about the challenges that come up as they age and received an enthusiastic and passionate response. They have compiled the results from the more than...

Today in the name of increased national security, are we wiling to return to the broad brushstrokes which demonize, deport and deprive working class people of their dignity?

Now that Donald Trump is president Twenty Life Lessons explores America during the 1950's and 1960's. Was it really as great for working Americans as Trump claims? The author remembers how Senator Joe McCarthy and F.B.I. Director J. Edgar Hoover persecuted many working class Americans including his parents. For years his father had his life disrupted by the FBI which discovered no evidence...

The way we house our senior population today and the providing of increasing care demands is heading for a crisis. The widely adopted view that staying at home no matter what is not a very good option. Indeed, by far the largest portion of the elderly population choose to stay home for as “long as they possible can”. Moving in one of those dreaded old folks homes is out of the question, partly of course because of the cost. The well touted home care services, partly paid for by the Government, let people believe that the entire talk of moving into a retirement home is not even...

This collection of three Best-Selling books inspirationally shares the author's personal spiritual growth while incorporating original poetry, scripture, and the telling of how life's experiences have blessed her. Through it all, she has remained focused on the promises of heavenly rewards and invites readers to join in the journey. It is made clear that journeying to Glory is worth every day God has allotted to us.

Book #1 - Spiritual Growth: From Milk to Strong Meat highlights how the author has spiritually grown from early childhood to her present senior years as a Christian.

Nan Narboe's 56 thoughtfully selected essays offer an intimate and lyrical account of aging through the decades.

Authors Judy Blume, Andrew McCarthy, Gloria Steinem, Donald Hall, David Shields, Ursula K. Le Guin and others draw from their own experiences, describing a specific decade's losses and gains to form a complex and unflinching portrait of the years from nearing fifty to ninety and beyond.

In six sections, these detail-rich essays paint an accessible picture of nearing 50, the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, the 90s and beyond with equal parts humor...

Hitchhiking is the least expensive way to get from point A to point B in any country. The only thing needed is a desire to be carefree throwing -caution to the wind.- Once that desire hits, you must make detailed plans and consider contingencies to that plan if #1, you have no money or #2, you have no way to the highway in the first place. Successful hitchhiking might also take a lot of luck and meeting the right people at the right time. It might also include a humbling time of learning the -pay it forward- philosophy. Before you take off for the open road, read this humorous and true...

Everything from account numbers, to the songs you'd like played at your funeral. From insurance details to what you want done with your possessions. Make life easier for those you leave behind. They will certainly appreciate it in their time of grief.

The upheavals of modern times can render human relationships difficult under the best of circumstances, and sometimes it takes the ironies inherent in those upheavals to strengthen the most intimate of human ties. In his heartfelt memoir, Mustin lays bare the hopes and fears, the joys and tragedies, of romance and marriage in middle age.

The story of this couple's life together, set against wife Becca's struggle with cancer, is a searing portrait of late middle age in modern times.