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"A witty, tender memoir of a son's journey home to care for his irascible mother--a tale of secrets, silences, and enduring love. When George Hodgman leaves Manhattan for his hometown of Paris, Missouri, he finds himself--an unlikely caretaker and near-lethal cook--in a head-on collision with his aging mother, Betty, a woman of wit and will. Will George lure her into assisted living? When hell freezes over. He can't bring himself to force her from...
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"A comprehensive overview of the female body over time, from those first gray hairs that crop up in our thirties to the menopause transition that can begin in our forties or fifties to the increased health risks ... we face in our sixties and beyond. Cameron shares cutting-edge research on aging, synthesizing insights from top medical experts with her own thoughts, opinions, and experiences"--Front jacket flap.
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Little, Brown and Company
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2023.
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Blending together the most cutting-edge research and stories from habitats all over the world, a molecular biologist explores what nature has to teach us about aging, revealing life spans we cannot imagine and physiological gifts that feel closer to magic than reality.
45) Calypso
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Personal essays share the author's adventures after buying a vacation house on the Carolina coast and his reflections on middle age and mortality.
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"For centuries, those afflicted by Alzheimer's disease have suffered its debilitating effects, with family members watching their loved ones disappear a little more each day until the person they used to know is gone forever. It was in 1901 that German psychologist and neurologist Alois Alzheimer began working with Auguste Deter, a 51-year-old woman suffering from dementia. In the century since the disease was first described, there has been a great...
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St. Martin's Press
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[2023]
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"In today's world, the acceleration of megatrends - increasing longevity and the explosion of technology among many others - are transforming life as we now know it. In The Perennials, bestselling author of 2030 Mauro Guillaen unpacks a sweeping societalshift triggered by demographic and technological transformation. Guillaen argues that outmoded terms like Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z have long been used to pigeonhole us into rigid categories...
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Your height your weight your body shape your age the colour of your eyes - do not matter when you want to learn to belly dance. You will feel healthier, more energetic and happier, than you have ever felt. You will feel you are a beautiful woman. You will feel self-assured. You will feel JOY! Zada first started to belly dance at the age of 60 and has felt healthier and happier in the past 5 years than she ever did in the previous 6 decades. This book...
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How would you like to die? Only you can answer this. Whatever your age, cultural identity, ethnic background, or beliefs, read this book if you want to talk about dying but don't know what you want to say. Each of us has our own special feelings, hopes, fears, and desires about this universal issue. These days, dying can happen in many different ways because of high-intensity therapies that prolong living and postpone dying. The proliferation of choices,...
52) Superaliments
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SUPERALIMENTS est un guide concis portant sur une série d'aliments qui se trouvent facilement en supermarché et dont la consommation aide à maintenir un style de vie et un esprit sains. Vous trouverez dans ce livre quelques suggestions pour accompagner les aliments qui y sont présentés, que ce soit à travers des recettes simples ou des combinaisons avec d'autres produits bons pour la santé. Les aliments que nous choisissons d'intégrer à notre...
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Does your memory change as you get older? It's common to be concerned about memory lapses, but how do you know if memory difficulties are normal or the beginnings of something more serious? Can dementia be prevented?
Memory-wise explains how memory works and the changes that can occur as we age. It explains the sort of health, attitude and lifestyle factors that can lead to fluctuation in memory and provides practical tips to minimise their effects....
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ZENior CitiZEN: Mastering the Art of Aging explores the possibility of strengthening the human spirit, while the physical body weakens piecemeal. It is as though the two elements of an individual's life (physical and non-physical) moved in opposite directions.
Thus, since old age is an inevitable circumstance of the human experience that cannot be avoided- except by an untimely death- then the way to overcome it is by incapacitating its ability to...
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Contemporary culture is permeated with the caustic message that nothing is more important than youth, and that the natural aging process is to be dreaded, denied, postponed, avoided at all costs. The media crams our minds full of dreadful data of aging as a dire collection of disease, devastation, and loss. Cultural perspectives foster a fear of aging which dramatically affects our experience of growing older.
Despite those gloom and doom prognostications,...
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For people over the age of sixty, New York City is a cluttered attic-a mess of valuables that cannot be ignored, but that for the most part remains buried in jargon, agencies, regulations, and eligibility forms. New York City is, after all, a place that offers seniors everything from discount tickets for Broadway shows to social service agencies for those who speak foreign languages including Spanish, Cantonese or Tagalog. It is a place of endless...
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Using a compilation of stories, two authors reflect on how to find meaning and purpose in the second half of your life.
Drawing on ancient and contemporary wisdom, as well as modern research, Richard Leider and David Shapiro provide insightful ways of thinking and being that help us find meaning and purpose in the second half of life. This deeply reflective book uses a safari, (referencing a trip the authors took to Africa in 2006) as a metaphor to...
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Ihr Auto ist nicht nur eine Anhäufung von Metall, Gummi und Drähten - sondern das exakte Spiegelbild Ihres Denkens und Glaubens. Was immer mit Ihrem Auto geschieht, haben Sie sich ausgedacht. Und deswegen ist es auch möglich, einen Rückschluss vom Zustand Ihres Autos auf den Ihrer unbewussten Denkstrukturen zu ziehen.
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Have you ever found yourself saying, "If I could only find a solution to deal with these symptoms from the infirmity in my body, I would have a better chance of fulfilling my heart's desire"?Ever felt like all inspiration and hope was lost?There is a full-proof plan that is guaranteed not to fail you. It's time to put the plan into action. So ask yourself, "What's on the Menu?"
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