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The Complete Geezer Guidebook: Everything You Need to Know about Being Old and Grumpy!
ISBN: 9781884956980 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Defining the differences between run-of-the-mill old farts and the loveable geezer, this hilarious tome for old men illuminates what they need to embrace geezerhood. Tools for recognizing different types of geezers--from the golfer to the hypochondriac--help men identify what type of cranky old man they are, and geezer role models and great geezer moments offer inspiration for who they can ultimately become. Offering daily insights into geezer philosophies and tips for locating popular geezer stomping grounds, this must-have gift for grandpa also includes crosswords, puzzles, and ""New Yorker...
Defining the differences between run-of-the-mill old farts and the loveable geezer, this hilarious tome for old men illuminates what they need to embr...
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Matters of the Mind and the Heart: Meeting the Challenges of Alzheimer Care
ISBN: 9781608604760 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beverly is owner of Sweet Grapes, Inc. a company licensing experienced professionals in the StilMee model of dementia coaching. She has personally coached hundreds of families and trained caregivers in assisted living residences and group homes for the developmentally disabled. She is a frequent presenter on aspects of dementia caregiving, focusing on the person's spirit and emotional well being. Beverly's interest always swayed toward understanding the behaviors of people through life changes, preparing her for her present passion for teaching dementia caregivers and training coaches. She...
Beverly is owner of Sweet Grapes, Inc. a company licensing experienced professionals in the StilMee model of dementia coaching. She has personally coa...
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Ageing and Social Policy in Australia
ISBN: 9780521498203 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This up-to-date book reflects the breadth of research into gerontology and analyzes the major themes and issues in the area of aging and social policy, in both an Australian context and from an international perspective. Topics discussed include unemployment, education and housing. Also considered are the influence of multiculturalism and the specific structural disadvantages faced by women and Aboriginal Australians. Essential reading for students and policymakers in sociology, social and public policy, gerontology and public health.
This up-to-date book reflects the breadth of research into gerontology and analyzes the major themes and issues in the area of aging and social policy...
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Talking with God in Old Age: Meditations and Psalms
ISBN: 9780835810166 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Buchanan candidly shares both the heartaches elderly adults face and the hopethey can find as they navigate the process of aging.
Buchanan candidly shares both the heartaches elderly adults face and the hopethey can find as they navigate the process of aging.
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Notes To Stephanie: Middle Aged Love Letters And Life Stories
ISBN: 9780615323527 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Young adults are not the only ones that fall in love and get married. People in their middle age do that too. This book is the story of one such couple as told by the notes written by the husband to his wife. These notes are not just love notes but also tell the tale of how life tests people and how its events sometimes feel overwhelming. They also show how couples do get through difficult times and proceed on through their lives, not knowing to what destination many times. If you sometimes wonder if you are the only one over 40 with a difficult adult child, a conflict at work, or something...
Young adults are not the only ones that fall in love and get married. People in their middle age do that too. This book is the story of one such coupl...
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You Know You're 60 When...
ISBN: 9780307587626 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Are you getting on in years, or know someone who is? Thinking of changing your birth certificate to show a more favorable birth date? You may lie about your age, but your age won t lie to you
Not sure how to tell when you re about to reach that fun sixtieth birthday? Here are some clues: WebMD is your home page When asked, Who s your doctor? you have to reply, Which one? An outbreak of acne makes you feel like a teenager again At your class reunion, you note with satisfaction that the captain of the football team wears a hearing aid The meadows where you sowed... Are you getting on in years, or know someone who is? Thinking of changing your birth certificate to show a more favorable birth date? You may lie abou...
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Ready to Live, Prepared to Die
ISBN: 9780877887041 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Are you afraid of dying?
Are you hesitant to talk with those who you love about your last wishes? Do you avoid the tasks that help you prepare for the future? Or, are you helping someone--a spouse, parent, friend, patient, or client--who is working through the issues of death and the quality of life? When Amy Harwell found out she had rapidly progressing cancer, she began a journey of discovery and faith that led her to a new understanding: Once we are well-prepared to die, we are really freed to live. With a hopefulness that never loses touch with reality, Harwell... Are you afraid of dying?
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Human Senescence: Evolutionary and Biocultural Perspectives
ISBN: 9780521571739 / Angielski / Twarda / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Predicting water runoff in ungauged water catchment areas is vital to practical applications such as the design of drainage infrastructure and flooding defences, runoff forecasting, and for catchment management tasks such as water allocation and climate impact analysis. This full colour book offers an impressive synthesis of decades of international research, forming a holistic approach to catchment hydrology and providing a one-stop resource for hydrologists in both developed and developing countries. Topics include data for runoff regionalisation, the prediction of runoff hydrographs, flow...
Predicting water runoff in ungauged water catchment areas is vital to practical applications such as the design of drainage infrastructure and floodin...
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Supercentenarians
ISBN: 9783642115196 / Angielski / Twarda / 323 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Does human mortality after age 110 continue to rise, level off, or start to decline? This book describes a concerted, international research effort undertaken with the goal of establishing a database that allows the best possible description of the mortality trajectory beyond the age of 110. The International Database on Longevity (IDL) is the result of this ongoing effort. The IDL contains exhaustive information on validated cases of supercentenarians (people 110 years and older) and allows unbiased estimates of mortality after age 110. The main finding is remarkable: human mortality after...
Does human mortality after age 110 continue to rise, level off, or start to decline? This book describes a concerted, international research effort un...
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Histone H1 glycation and rutin metabolites as glycation inhibitors
ISBN: 9783639212242 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Protein glycation, induced by hyperglycemia, is implicated in the appearance of diabetic complications and the aging process. Glycation involves the non-enzymatic reaction between sugars and protein amino groups that lead to formation of advanced glycation end products (AGEs). When aminoguanidine, a proven AGE inhibitor, was tested as an anti-diabetic drug in clinical trials showed critical side effects, which suggested a need for improved AGE inhibitors. A protein glycation model included histone H1 and glyoxal or methylglyoxal since it allowed to distinguish AGE inhibitors from...
Protein glycation, induced by hyperglycemia, is implicated in the appearance of diabetic complications and the aging process. Glycation involves the...
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Wising Up
ISBN: 9781608992263 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wising Up provides rituals and guidance for women as they age. It helps them make the often difficult life transitions wisely and in the context of their faith communities. Instead of focusing exclusively on time-worn thresholds such as menopause, marriage and divorce, and dying, the book contains affirming rituals on: coming to terms with the changes in one's body; learning to live with and depend on an item like a walker or a hearing aid; giving up one's driver's license; deciding how to give away one's household contents; and being orphaned. In addition to the rituals--and guidelines on...
Wising Up provides rituals and guidance for women as they age. It helps them make the often difficult life transitions wisely and in the context of th...
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Grandpa Does Grandma: The ABCs of Senior Sex
ISBN: 9780972406161 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Grandpa Does Grandma The ABCs of Senior Sex is a landmark book. Informative, Educational and Entertaining it provides a positive spin to sex and intimacy in our Golden Years
Grandpa Does Grandma The ABCs of Senior Sex is a landmark book. Informative, Educational and Entertaining it provides a positive spin to sex and intim...
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Granny Snatching
ISBN: 9781933449838 / Angielski / Miękka / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Mature Friendships, Love, and Romance: A Practical Guide to Intimacy for Older Adults
ISBN: 9780313382420 / Angielski / Twarda / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written to appeal to men as well as women, Mature Friendships, Love, and Romance: A Practical Guide to Intimacy for Older Adults is a serious book about love, romance, intimacy, and sexuality, as well as friendship and family. It is about what happens when older adults lack close relationships and about practical ways to address that isolation and loneliness. Through personal stories and vignettes, readers will see how notions of friendship, intimacy, and love change as we age, what mature love is, and what factors can make it challenging. Among the topics discussed... Written to appeal to men as well as women, Mature Friendships, Love, and Romance: A Practical Guide to Intimacy for Older Adults is a seriou... |
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Aging, But Never Old: The Realities, Myths, and Misrepresentations of the Anti-Aging Movement
ISBN: 9780313380181 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There are many myths and much misinformation about aging. At the same time, there are few trustworthy books on the subject. "Aging, But Never Old: The Realities, Myths, and Misrepresentations of the Anti-Aging Movement" was written to address those myths and fill that gap. Written by an eminent geriatric specialist, this book will educate readers about the specialty of geriatric medicine, helping them understand what true geriatric care is and what it can do for older adults. The book opens with a comparison of scientifically sound geriatric medicine as compared to its arch rival, the... There are many myths and much misinformation about aging. At the same time, there are few trustworthy books on the subject. "Aging, But Never Old: ... |
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The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully
ISBN: 9781933346335 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Not only accepting but celebrating getting old, this inspirational and illuminating work looks at the many facets of the aging process, from purposes and challenges to struggles and surprises.
Not only accepting but celebrating getting old, this inspirational and illuminating work looks at the many facets of the aging process, from purposes ...
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How to Keep Mom (and Yourself) Out of a Nursing Home: Seven Keys to Keeping Your Independence
ISBN: 9780984420209 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This insider's guide helps you identify the risk factors that can take away your independence. Dr. Fisher reveals the seven most common reasons people end up in a nursing home, and he offers simple, practical steps to protect yourself from these pitfalls. This book gives you the tools you need for healthy aging, at any age. Don't wait until it is too late. Start Dr. Fisher's program today -- "A practical guide for staying vibrant " Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones
This insider's guide helps you identify the risk factors that can take away your independence. Dr. Fisher reveals the seven most common reasons people...
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Shaping A Life of Significance For Retirement
ISBN: 9780835810258 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Addresses the personal dimensions of transitioning from full-time work to retirement life.
Addresses the personal dimensions of transitioning from full-time work to retirement life.
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Groping Toward Whatever or How I Learned to Retire, Sort of
ISBN: 9780982813690 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Susan Trausch is "retired" but not quite sure what that means. She doesn't have to go to the office anymore and that's good. But there is no quick answer to the question, "What do you DO?" and that's bad. After a career at the Boston Globe she is off the clock and glad -- except when she blows a morning messing with dryer lint, except when the confidence evaporates and she forgets to laugh. This is a tale of transition, a journey from job to somewhere else. It's about confusion, aging, joy, and love. It's about disorienting change and the serenity found in what remains constant.
Susan Trausch is "retired" but not quite sure what that means. She doesn't have to go to the office anymore and that's good. But there is no quick ans...
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Clinical Perspectives on Elderly Sexuality
ISBN: 9781441933386 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout my clinical training and practice, I have been surprised by the number of times that sexual issues have emerged as an unexpectedly central feature in my work with older adults. I can vividly remember my own internal reaction on hearing one of my elderly female patients tell me that she was date raped a few years after the death of her elderly husband-when she was 68 years old. I can see in my mind's eye the blood splattered on the floor of an inpatient unit from an elderly man who smashed his arm through a window, furious that his antidepressant medication made it impossible to...
Throughout my clinical training and practice, I have been surprised by the number of times that sexual issues have emerged as an unexpectedly central ...
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