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Never Say Die: The Myth of the New Old Age (Vintage Vintage) by Susan Jacoby Publisher Comments In Never Say Die, Susan Jacoby delivers a brave, impassioned, and exceptionally important wake-up call to Americans who have long been deluded by the dangerous myth that a radically new old age awaits the huge baby boom generation. Combining... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper 
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The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty by Carolyn G Heilbrun Publisher Comments The astute and ever eloquent Carolyn Heilbrun, author of the bestselling "Writing a Woman's Life", muses on the emotional and intellectual insights that have brought her to "choose each day for now, to live".... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Someday All This Will Be Yours: A History of Inheritance and Old Age by Hendrik Hartog Publisher Comments We all hope that we will be cared for as we age. But the details of that care, for caretaker and recipient alike, raise some of life’s most vexing questions. From the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, as an explosive economy and shifting... (read more) Your price: $29.25 New - Hardcover
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Lastingness: The Art of Old Age by Nicholas Delbanco Publisher Comments America grows older yet stays focused on its young. Whatever hill we try to climb, we're over it by fifty and should that hill involve entertainment or athletics we're finished long before. But if younger is better, it doesn't appear that youngest is... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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Vital Involvement in Old Age: The Experience of Old Age in Our Time by Erik H Erikson Publisher Comments The last stage, old age, challenges the individual to rework the past while remaining involved in the present. The authors begin this work with their theory of life's stages through old age. In Part two, they discuss their interviews with twenty-nine... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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You're Old, I'm Old . . . Get Used to It!: Twenty Reasons Why Growing Old Is Great by Virginia Ironside Publisher Comments It's time to stop hiding that birth certificate! Virginia Ironside wants you to know that getting old is a good thing-and not in that dreadful andquot;sixty is the new fortyandquot; way. At sixty- five, she has no interest in pretending to be young and... (read more) Your price: $14.00 New - Trade Paper
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Family Ties and Aging by Ingrid Arnet Connidis Publisher Comments Providing an integrated and thorough representation of what we know from current research and contemporary society, Family Ties and Aging is the only book that shows how pressing issues of our time-an aging population, changing family structures, and new... (read more) Your price: $64.00 New - Trade Paper
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This Is Getting Old: Zen Thoughts on Aging with Humor and Dignity by Susan Moon Publisher Comments In this intimate and funny collection of essays on the sometimes confusing, sometimes poignant, sometimes hilarious condition of being a woman over sixty, Susan Moon keeps her sense of humor and she keeps her reader fully engaged. Among the pieces she... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Long Bright Future by Laura Carstensen Publisher Comments The twentieth century bequeathed us a fabulous gift: thirty more years of life on average. Supersized life spans are going to radically alter society, and present an unprecedented opportunity to change our approach not only to old age but to all of lifes... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life by James Hillman Publisher Comments In his powerful bestseller The Soul's Code, James Hillman brilliantly illuminated the central importance of character to our spiritual and emotional lives. Now, in this magnificent new book, Hillman completes his exploration of character with a profound... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Age Doesn't Matter Unless You're a Cheese: Wisdom from Our Elders by Kathryn Petras Publisher Comments Full of surprise, insight, humour, perspective, celebration, inspiration and a kind of offhand, poignant poetry, AGE DOESN'T MATTER UNLESS YOU'RE A CHEESE - title courtesy of Billie Burke - shares hundreds of the best things men and women over sixty have... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Still Riding at 80 by Helen Hills Synopsis Still Riding at 80 with profiles of twenty elder riders and drivers offers insights into the physical, emotional, and mental challenges of riding, driving, and keeping horses as one grows older. The author Helen Hills, herself still riding at 80 as of... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $8.61 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Aging Network (7TH 11 Edition) by Kelly Niles-yokum Publisher Comments Drs. Niles-Yokum and Wagner have written a comprehensive and accessible overview of aging services in the United States, from the evolution of a formal aging network through the older Americans Act to innovative new programs aimed at disaster... (read more) List Price $53.25 Your price: $38.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Time of Our Lives: The Science of Human Aging by T. B. L. Kirkwood Publisher Comments By the year 2050 one in five of the world's population will be 65 or older, a fact which presages profound medical, biological, philosophical, and political changes in the coming century. In Time of Our Lives, Tom Kirkwood draws on more than twenty years... (read more) Your price: $68.50 New - Hardcover
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Physical Change and Aging: a Guide for the Helping Professions (5TH 10 Edition) by Sue V. Saxon Publisher Comments This book] has been honed into an elegant compendium. This outstanding work should be widely read -- it is perhaps the best example of an integrative approach to gerontology. Score: 94, 4 stars --Doody's This book serves as an authoritative textbook and... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $42.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Time of Our Lives : the Science of Human Aging (99 Edition) by Tom Kirkwood Publisher Comments By the year 2050 one in five of the world's population will be 65 or older, a fact which presages profound medical, biological, philosophical, and political changes in the coming century. In Time of Our Lives, Tom Kirkwood draws on more than twenty years... (read more) List Price $37.99 Your price: $29.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Living and Dying At Murray Manor (97 Edition) by Jaber F. Gubrium Publisher Comments A classic text that documents the "work" of everyday life in a nursing home. In 1973 sociologist Jaber F. Gubrium spent several months at a nursing home as a participant-observer. Through his observations, interviews, and transcriptions, Gubrium recounts... (read more) Your price: $26.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Leisureville: Adventures in a World Without Children by Andrew D Blechman Synopsis In his critically acclaimed work, Blechman delves into life in a gated retirement community and offers a hilarious, first-hand report on all its peculiarities. He also takes a serious look at the consequences of such instant cities and examines the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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How To Say It To Seniors: Closing the Communication Gap With Our Elders by David Solie Publisher Comments A practical guide to bridging the generation gap. In How to Say It(r) to Seniors, geriatric psychology expert David Solie offers help in removing the typical communication blocks many experience with the elderly. By sharing his insights into the later... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Social Welfare, Aging, and Social Theory by Jason L. Powell Publisher Comments Social Welfare, Aging and Social Theory explores how we can understand the changing relationship between social welfare and human aging. The book begins by reviewing how historical changes in society impacted on shaping emergence of scientific approaches... (read more) Your price: $76.25 New - Hardcover
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