Kategoria BISAC: Self-Help >> Aging

Many parents have demonstrated a desire to parent skillfully and artfully. They read the latest child development and parenting books, configure their schedules to accommodate the social and educational lives of their children, and focus like lasers on their childrens well-being. Many have made an enormous emotional and financial investment in raising their children. But children grow up, they move out, they create their own lives and their own homes. The role of the parent changes, diminishes, and evolves. The life phase that begins in preparation for an empty nest and continues until...

Inflammation causes the aches and pains of arthritis, the discomfort of allergies, and the breathing obstruction of asthma. But over the past several years, medicine has recognized that chronic inflammation is a key underlying factor in heart disease Alzheimer's, some cancers, and the aging process itself. In this User's Guide, Dr. Hunninghake explains exactly how inflammation is involved in these diseases, how it can be easily measured, and the foods and nutritional supplements that can help you prevent and reverse inflammation.

Throughout life, DNA reproduces and replaces itself continually. In optimal conditions, the copies are perfect, but as environment, diet and stress begin to take their toll, so the DNA becomes damaged and this leads to aging and disease.

For anyone who has found themselves thinking: "But it never used to hurt when I... " Every Body's Guide to Everyday Pain is written for them. This book sheds light on three burning questions: Why does it hurt? How do I make it stop? and How do I keep it from happening again?

In this first of a three-volume series, Every Body's Guide to Everyday Pain is not about chronic, debilitating pain. Instead, it addresses the familiar bouts of everyday aches and pains that can easily lead to a lifetime of discomfort. Volume One - Put Out the Fire guides...

Show-business legend Dick Van Dyke is living proof that life does get better the longer you live it. Who better to offer instruction, advice, and humor than someone who's entering his ninth decade with a jaunty two-step? Van Dyke isn't just a born song-and-dance man; his irrepressible belief in embracing the moment and unleashing his inner child has proved to be the ultimate elixir of youth. When he was injured during the filming of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, his doctor warned him he'd be using a walker within seven years, but Dick performed a soft shoe right there and never looked back....

Why do some men struggle with life when they hit their 40's? Depression. Stress. Poor decisions. Suicide. Menopause in men IS real, and not the same as women get. This book explores what it is, what other factors affect men as they age, and a range of treatment and prevention options both 'conventional' and 'alternative'. And it does so in simple terms, demystifying some of the confusing or intimidating jargon some health practitioners use.

Blokes often don't talk about their health problems. And if they do, many of them don't like to admit it when they don't quite understand what...

Mary Anne Miceli's fifth poetry book, "Poetry: Aging Redefined," reflects on many aspects of change through Life and examines how on-going positive thinking and questioning ever motivate us. Her seascape photos, all taken at Hospital Point-overlooking the Beverly/Salem MA Harbor at twilight, visually display on-going changes- reflective of Life's continual changes.

Tips and Strategies for Embracing Life After 50 from AgingButDANGEROUS.com(R) Our conversations had turned from wine, weddings and weekend getaways to what was happening to our wit, wallets and waistlines. And it wasn't just one single issue. We were experiencing a multitude of converging shifts in how we perceived and experienced life. Was it our age? DON'T PEE ON MY SOFA AND OTHER THINGS TO LAUGH ABOUT shares that humorous journey.

"Suzanne Bates is one smart-mouthed woman - and I love it With candid stories and canny solutions derived from her personal experiences, her book...

Sacred Aging and the achievement of humanity's highest expression of love and purpose: The Divine Human.

This book started as an analysis of the heroic fallacy but became several other kinds of story. Primarily, the portrait of a protracted breakdown in the author Michael Scotts psychological and physical make-up, although he struggles hard not to go under, making his account more useful for others to read. Its neither pathological, nor self-indulgently self-pitying.

There are useful accounts of coping strategies, particularly appropriate to age-related weakness and physical infirmity, especially when their onset is sudden as it was for Scott.

The book focuses on puzzling features of human...

What does it mean to be able to move? The Aging Body in Dance brings together leading scholars and artists from a range of backgrounds to investigate cultural ideas of movement and beauty, expressiveness and agility.

Contributors focus on Euro-American and Japanese attitudes towards aging and performance, including studies of dancers from Yvonne Rainer, Martha Graham and Anna Halprin to Kazuo Ohno and Kikuo Tomoeda, and directors such as Romeo Castellucci. The theoretical and artistic discourses by European, American, and Japanese thinkers are presented not as an...

What does it mean to be able to move? The Aging Body in Dance brings together leading scholars and artists from a range of backgrounds to investigate cultural ideas of movement and beauty, expressiveness and agility.

Contributors focus on Euro-American and Japanese attitudes towards aging and performance, including studies of dancers from Yvonne Rainer, Martha Graham and Anna Halprin to Kazuo Ohno and Kikuo Tomoeda, and directors such as Romeo Castellucci. The theoretical and artistic discourses by European, American, and Japanese thinkers are presented not as an...

The hottest people know that being sexy is about a lot more than what happens between the sheets. That's just mechanics.
Sexy is about living a life that is creative, confident, passionate, generous, and authentic.
If you haven't been living the deliciously juicy life of your dreams, it's not too late to remodel. In this fun, inspirational, and light-hearted book, Career and Life Design Coach Sue Koch offers a combination of stories, personal insights, and exercises to help you design a Sexy Second Act life and career that combines Passion, Purpose, and a Paycheck (R).

Would it be alright with you if life got easier? Aliza Bloom Robinson, vibrational catalyst, is here to show you that it can. Step by step Falling Into Ease systematically removes all the barriers you believe you have to creating a life you love.

This resource guide includes helpful tips on choosing Physicians, Medicare and Medicaid plans, Senior Housing, Assisted Living Centers, Rehab & Nursing Centers, Mental Health programs, and accessing benefits for Retired Military and their families. It provides an in depth coverage on how to prevent fraud, neglect and abuse of the elderly. Great preventative ideas for Aging in America with grace, dignity and in the environment each senior prefers. The Author, Karyn Rizzo's passion to help families connect to local resources, receive knowledge and care, has been a key theme of her work over the...

As you age, you may find yourself worrying about your memory. Where did I put those car keys? What time was my appointment? What was her name again? With more than 41 million Americans over the age of 65 in the United States, the question becomes how much (or, perhaps, what type) of memory loss is to be expected as one gets older and what should trigger a visit to the doctor.

Seven Steps to Managing Your Memory addresses these key concerns and more, such as...

- What are the signs that suggest your memory problems are more than just part of normal aging?
- Is it normal to...