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Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to reject the notion that aging is an evil. The rewards of growing older are emphasized and practical steps for remaining healthy are offered. Learn the best approach to diet and exercise, how important sleep is, and much more.
42) The conscious caregiver: a mindful approach to caring for your loved one without losing yourself
Author
Publisher
Adams Media
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Linda Abbit, founder of Tender Loving Eldercare and a veteran of the caregiving industry, shares her advice on taking care of an older parent or loved one and how to handle everything that goes along with this dramatic life change. Being a caregiver can be a difficult role. It requires patience, tenderness, selflessness, and hard work. Providing care for someone, whether it's a parent, a loved one, or as a professional requires a high level of self-love...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A diabetic woman awakens from a coma having forgotten the last ten years of her life. A Haitian immigrant has nightmares that begin bleeding into his waking hours. A retired teacher loses the use of her right hand due to pain of no known origin. Noga Arikha began studying these patients and their confounding symptoms in order to explore how our physical experiences inform our identities. Soon after she initiated her work, the question took on unexpected...
Author
Language
English
Description
If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life? It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children — four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness — sneak out to hear their fortunes. The prophecies inform their next five decades. Golden-boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching...
Author
Publisher
Hudson Street Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xiii, 271 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
More than one thousand extraordinary Americans share their stories and the wisdom they have gained on living, loving, and finding happiness. After a chance encounter with an extraordinary ninety-year-old woman, renowned gerontologist Karl Pillemer began to wonder what older people know about life that the rest of us don't. His quest led him to interview more than one thousand Americans over the age of sixty-five to seek their counsel on all the big...
46) A separation
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Persian
Description
A married couple must decide whether to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
vi, 265 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
We've all seen the ads on TV and in magazines -- "50 is the new 30!" or "60 is the new 40!" A nice sentiment to be sure, but Jo Ann Jenkins, CEO of AARP and author of Disrupt Aging, disagrees. 50 is 50 and she, for one, likes the look of it. People 50-plus today face distinct challenges and have different goals than people in their 30s and 40s. They're at a different place in their lives and are motivated by different things. They see the world through...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Faced with the challenges of life after middle age, Dave Barry turns to his best dog, Lucy, to learn how to live his best life. From 'Make New Friends' (an unfortunate fail when he can't overcome his dislike for mankind) to 'Don't Stop Having Fun' (validating his membership in a marching unit that performs in parades), Dave navigates his later years with good humor and grace. Lucy teaches Dave how to live in the present, how to let go of daily...
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (71 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lives Well Lived celebrates the incredible wit and wisdom of people aged 75-100, who reveal their secrets for living a meaningful life. Encompassing 3,000 years of collective life experience, diverse people share life lessons about perseverance, the human spirit, and staying positive in the midst of life's greatest challenges.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
p2014
Physical Desc
3 sound discs (ca. 3 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Short Guide to a Long Life is divided into three sections (What to Do, What to Avoid, and Doctor’s Orders) that provide the definitive answers to many common and not-so-common questions: Who should take a baby aspirin daily? Are flu shots safe? What constitutes “healthy” foods? Why is it important to protect your senses? Are airport scanners hazardous? Dr. Agus will help you develop new patterns of personal health care using inexpensive and...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
418 pages : illustrations. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The definitive guide to keeping your brain healthy for a long and lucid life, by one of the world's leading scientists in the field of brain health and aging. The brain is our most vital and complex organ. It controls and coordinates our actions, thoughts and interactions with the world around us. It is the source of personality, of our sense of self, and it shapes every aspect of our human experience. Yet most of us know precious little about how...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxix, 332 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nine of the original contributors to "The Bitch in the House" join new voices in this collection of essays to reveal how their lives have changed since the first volume and discuss their unique views on womanhood and feminism today.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (165 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he ages backwards, being born an old man. He is diagnosed with several aged diseases at birth and thus given...
54) Unquiet: a novel
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
He is a renowned Swedish filmmaker and has a plan for everything. She is his daughter, the youngest of nine children. Every summer, since she was a little girl, she visits him at his beloved stony house surrounded by woods, poppies, and the Baltic sea. Now that she’s grown up and he’s in his late eighties, he envisions a book about old age. He worries that he’s losing his language, his memory, his mind. Growing old is hard work, he says. They...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The kingdom of sand's "nameless narrator is a gay man who moved to Florida to look after his aging parents--during the height of the AIDS epidemic--and has found himself unable to leave after their deaths. With gallows humor, he chronicles the indignities of growing old in a small town. At the heart of the novel is the story of his friendship with Earl, whom he met cruising at the local boat ramp. For the last twenty years, he has been visiting Earl...
57) All about Eve
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Davis stars as a fading Broadway actress who is menaced by an overreaching younger actress played by Baxter.
59) Prime time
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
ix, 416 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Highlighting new research and stories from her own life and from the lives of others, Jane Fonda explores how the critical years from 45 and 50, and especially from 60 and beyond, can be times when we truly become the energetic, loving, fulfilled people we were meant to be. Covering the 11 key ingredients for vital living, Fonda invites you to consider with her how to live a more insightful, healthy, and fully integrated life, a life lived more profoundly...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Language
English
Formats
Description
Keep your brain young, healthy, and sharp with this science-driven guide to protecting your mind from decline by neurosurgeon and CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
Throughout our life, we look for ways to keep our minds sharp and effortlessly productive. Now, globetrotting neurosurgeon Dr. Sanjay Gupta offers "the book all of us need, young and old" (Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Code...
Throughout our life, we look for ways to keep our minds sharp and effortlessly productive. Now, globetrotting neurosurgeon Dr. Sanjay Gupta offers "the book all of us need, young and old" (Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Code...
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