The aging process has historically been thought of as a time of slowing down, declining, and "running out the clock." By introducing the concept of REJUVENAGING, psychologist Ron Kaiser provides a blueprint for making the aging proces an active and exciting one. With seven keys and countless practical strategies, the book draws upon the exciting fields of Positive Psychology and Neuroplasticity to provide guidance for maximizing physical and emotional health, social involvements, and improved intellectual functioning during the senior years. As Dr. Kaiser emphasizes, growing older is not a spectator sport.
If you are in the second half century of life, this book will make your children jealous because they’re not old enough to Rejuvenage. But it's actually never too early to follow Dr. Kaiser’s formula for growing older in an active, accomplishing, healthy, and enthusiastic manner by maintaining a healthy mindset and lifestyle and by:
Owning the aging process
Mastering the 7 keys to Rejuvenaging
Maintaining mind and body productivity throughout your life
Finalist - Health: Aging/50+ 2019 Best Book Awards
No more exercise we hate! If you’re like most of us, your fitness story is a string of lapsed gym memberships, failed fad diets, and long stretches of sedentary life with brief bursts of "this time I’m really going to get it done" training programs. You probably even bemoan your lack of grit and discipline and have a string of "if onlies" in your head when it comes to exercise. "If only I had more time..." "If only I didn’t have this injury..." "If only I had the cash to buy a treadmill or join a gym..."
What if you could go from COUCH to ACTIVE in just 8 weeks—without pills, potions, powders, or special equipment? Bad Couch Guru Lyn Lindbergh shows you how to create an active lifestyle you love—one you can stick with for decades to come. This book isn’t about chasing a perfect bikini-body or cramming you into another "let’s fix you" fitness program. Lyn’s approach meets you where you are. With humor, real talk, and her trademark energetic encouragement, she helps you break through the obstacles that keep you from exercise and find ways to cultivate an active lifestyle you love. Imagine yourself living a life you love by honoring what’s important to you; and embracing this crazy-as-bananas life while including exercise you enjoy. COUCH to ACTIVE gets you there in just eight weeks. Don’t cram yourself into someone else’s box—one that doesn’t let you live the life you want. Aim for a life you love!
Finalist - Health: Aging/50+ 2019 Best Book Awards
I haven’t finished with my life, and neither has God.
As we see fewer years ahead than behind, it can be easy to question our value or what we have left to contribute to our communities. How can we continue to give back and live with purpose in our later years? Barbara Lee is living this reality every day, and in this book she describes the intersection of aging with the timelessness of Ignatian spirituality.
God Isn’t Finished with Me Yet shows readers how God meets us with unexpected grace. In five succinct chapters, Lee shows how Ignatian prayer and discernment offer those in later life a path to discovering previously unknown vocations and new ways of living and being of service.
You’re still living your life, and God is still revealing His grace.
Finalist - Health: Aging/50+ 2019 Best Book Awards
In his new book, medical doctor Richard P. Holm, provides wise counsel for all aging people and for those caring for them. Dr. Holm guides the reader in how to see aging as a privilege, not a failing and how to avoid the perils that come with the experience. Also, after dealing with his own pancreatic cancer, Holm provides a unique perspective on how to prepare for and face the dying process with grace. However, the book is more than just a guide to aging and dying with grace. Dr. Holm is a superbly trained and experienced internist and geriatrician, who blends modern medicine with Midwestern wisdom.
He advises a life of regular physical activity, enhanced social interaction, and good food comprised of balanced and moderate portions.
He advocates avoiding unnecessary pills and only the limited use of some supplements.
He speaks to the importance of intense listening, selflessness, the value of ethical thinking, and the making of living wills.
While giving value to caregivers, he explains how to define dementia and how to care for those with declining function.
Holm provides methods for the elderly to avoid scams, abuse, suffering and the fear of death.
Finalist - Health: Aging/50+ 2019 Best Book Awards
When a loved one shows signs of dementia or Alzheimer’s disease, you will face challenges for which you feel ill-prepared. Dozens of decisions will need to be made:
Can Mom safely live by herself safely? If not, what if she refuses to leave her home?
When do I need to take away the car keys and checkbook?
Should I correct her when she insists her dead sister is still alive?
How do I handle her repetitive questions and accusations?
How do I keep her entertained?
How do I handle her angry outbursts, refusal to take a bath, and inappropriate comments?
Should I quit taking her out altogether to avoid embarrassment?
Finalist - Health: Aging/50+ 2019 Best Book Awards
As we age, it can get harder and harder to lose weight and stay fit. Decades of poor exercise and eating habits make achieving wellness after age 40 substantially different from staying healthy in our 20s. Stop wasting time with fad diets and training programs designed for millennials. This all-inclusive fitness guide will get us where we need to go.
In The Wellness Roadmap, certified personal trainer Allan Misner provides powerful tools for middle-agers who want to live happier, healthier, and fitter lives. He helps us understand our bodies' unique needs and abilities while offering invaluable direction for choosing sustainable training, nutrition, and recovery plans that suit our specific fitness goals. And he introduces the concept of the Wellness GPS to keep us focused along the way.
It's never too late to get healthy and fit. The Wellness Roadmap shows you the way to a better life.
All around us, older women flourish in industry, entertainment, and politics. Do they know something that we don’t, or are we all just trying to figure it out? For so many of us, our hearts and minds still feel that we are twenty-something young women who can take on the world. But in our bodies, the flexibility and strength that were once taken for granted are far from how we remember them. Every day we have to rise above the creaky joints and achy knees to earn the opportunity of moving through the world with a modicum of grace. Yet we do rise, because it’s a privilege to grow old, and every single day is a gift. Peter Pan’s mantra was “never grow up”; our collective mantra should be “never stop growing.” This collection of user-friendly stories, essays, and philosophies invites readers to celebrate whatever age they are with a sense of joy and purpose and with a spirit of gratitude.
With humor and a down-to-earth style, this book is easy to read and contains invaluable tips for all caregivers!
Private care is too costly for many. The result is caring for their elderly loved ones at home.
Often, these caregivers are still working full-time and taking care of other family and professional responsibilities. Even for someone who is retired, adding the role of caregiver for an elderly loved one is often more challenging than anyone ever anticipates.
Based on experience and research, this book provides caregivers quick ideas to help resolve some common problems.
This invaluable guide will help the historical number of eightysomethings live fulfilled, happy lives long into their twilight years. Personal stories illustrate how real people in their eighties are living and how they make sense of their lives.
Old age is not what it used to be. For the first time ever, most people in the United States are living into their eighties. The first guide of its kind, Eightysomethings changes our understanding of old age with an upbeat and emotionally savvy view of the uncharted territory of the last stage of life. With insight and humor, Dr. Katharine Esty describes the series of dramatic and difficult transitions that eightysomethings usually experience and how, despite their losses, they so often find themselves unexpectedly happy.
