Aging category: 2173 books

My father spent most of his working career in the Royal Air Force (RAF). Although he is in his eighties now, and long retired, he still believes - and expects - that everything should run according to the duty roster posted in the Guard Room. That everything happens to order, in order. No questions....

This book provides multinational evidence on active and healthy ageing. It generates authoritative new knowledge for mutual learning and policymaking in addressing challenges linked with population ageing. The authors discuss how to achieve better active ageing outcomes through appropriate policies...

How will you cope when you no longer have the routine of work? This book offers 22 thoughts about retirement and its impact on your life and offers you ways to help you deal with emotional effects of the life transition called retirement. Many people struggle with the transition from working...

Percent of female elder abuse victims: 67.3 %Median age of elder abuse victims: 77.9Percent of white victims: 66.4 %Percent of black victims: 18.7 %Percent of hispanic victims: 10.4 %International Elder Abuse Awareness Day is June 14th as declared by the United Nations.The amount of...

Informative and full of hope, Getting Old Without GettingAnxious assists older people and their caregivers in overcoming one of the more crippling and misunderstood human afflictions: anxiety. Geriatric psychiatrist and bestselling author of The 36-Hour Day Dr. Peter V. Rabins explains how the many...

Are you, or someone you care about, struggling with mobility issues? Or are you merely starting to consider the ways in which your age might begin to have an effect on your independence? Move Up, Not Out! offers a compelling and thorough look at the benefits of adding a stair lift to your home. In...

Whats on the TV of our mind. What promotes the changes and the challenges we experience? Who decided what we watch and how we come up with the decisions that we make? How does our past influence our future decisions and our future ideals? This is my journey and how I decided to decipher those thoughts...

No one needs to tell you that the crises of midlife are real. In fact, they can loom like mountains blocking your path. Kids grow up, parents grow old, spouses grow apart. Finances get strained and regrets are relentless—just when it should be getting easier! At this stage of life, it's easy to...

It is my hope as you read this, my second book, that it will give you some answers or insight in dealing with your own journey. I hope you can find some peace in your own life in this book. Something that helps you hold on.

After decades of overdoing it, pushing beyond my limits and stumbling full speed ahead through hazards of all kinds, I've finally decided to reign in my competitive nature and take a more measured pace through the rest of life. It's time to slow down and smell the liniment. FOR A BETTER LIFE...

Re-Designing Your Life: A Practical Spirituality for the Second Half of Life is a timely and engaging book for living out the second half of your life with spiritual integrity. In this study you are invited to think about your life as a house undergoing renovations where, with God’s grace, you get...

Nella vita di ciascuno di noi puntualmente arriva, in forma di vera e propria crisi o di semplice verifica, quello che riconosciamo come un giro di boa. Può succedere a qualsiasi età e per le più svariate ragioni, come quando guardandoci allo specchio notiamo per la prima volta qualcosa che ci...

Some Marriages Don’t Survive Middle Age Adultery. Will Yours? Does male midlife crisis cause husbands to cheat? For many women, middle age will turn their marriages into nightmares when their formerly faithful husbands go outside the marriage in a search for the fountain of youth and believe it can...

A Real Man's Guide to Weight Loss, or, How My Fat A** Lost 20 pounds in 2 months. Back woods humorist, Grady J. Daniels recounts his real life journey to weight loss, in a way that only he can. The Liquor Is Quicker Diet could be the quickest, funnest, and funniest way to lose weight ever found. Recipes included