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Mothering Mother: A Daughter's Humorous and Heartbreaking Memoir
by Carol D. O'dell  Publisher Comments An authentic and "in-the-room" view of a daughter's struggle to care for an aging parent written in this refreshing and entertaining memoir. Carol's mother has Parkinson's Disease and a heart condition, and Carol's decision not to put her...
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A Journey Called Aging: Challenges and Opportunities in Older Adulthood
by James Fisher Publisher Comments Understand the sequential stages in the aging process A Journey Called Aging: Challenges and Opportunities in Older Adulthood presents an insightful exploration of the years between the entry into older adulthood and death. This text examines the...
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In the Arms of Elders: a Parable of Wise Leadership and Community Building (06 Edition)
by William H. Thomas Publisher Comments A doctor's visionary tale about a place where the wisdom of the elders offers timeless moral lessons. The fact that elders contribute significant guidance and knowledge to their relationships is exemplified throughout the book. The importance of...
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Diving in: Discovering Who You Are in the Second Half of Life
by Mark Bodnarczuk Publisher Comments Diving In invites the reader to journey along with nine people who are given this chance as they participate in a life-alternating workshop combined with a diving expedition in the breathtaking, azure waters of Indonesia. Over six days, they are...
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Services To the Aging and Aged (95 Edition)
by Paul K. (ed.) Kim Publisher Comments This anthology of original essays analyzes public policies of vital concern to the elderly and their families. Written by authorities in the field of gerontological policy and service programs, the essays cover such areas as retirement, housing, mental...
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Modelling Our Future: Population Aging, Health and Aged Care (International Symposia in Economic Theory and Econometrics)
by Anil Gupta Publisher Comments This volume serves to present to interested readers recent developments in microsimulation and public policy. It strings together: <BR>(1)selected papers presented at the International Microsimulation Conference on Population Ageing and Health...
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Aging, Society, and the Life Course (3RD 07 Edition)
by Leslie A. Morgan Publisher Comments This text is used to explore the diversity of the aging population and crack the major stereotypes surrounding the elderly. Readers learn about aging through all the layers of social context from family life to politics and economics, and come to see how...
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Tales from Rhapsody Home: Or, What They Don't Tell You about Senior Living
by John Gould Publisher Comments ONCE UPON a long-ago time, I was a fine-looking young man with fire in my eye, zeal in my heart, and a haircut that cost twenty-five cents." So begins Tales from Rhapsody Home, ninety-two-years-old John Gould's entertaining look at how he arrived, quite...
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Lifelines : Living Longer, Growing Frail, Taking Heart (01 Edition)
by Muriel R. Gillick Publisher Comments A specialist in elderly care examines the complications of life as people live far longer than they used to. This book aims to help the frail elderly and their families cope with the often unforeseen dilemmas of aging....
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Issues in Global Aging
by Frederick L. (edt) Ahearn Publisher Comments Gain a new perspective on the international implications of our aging population This comprehensive book examines a broad array of international concerns in gerontology. Issues in Global Aging addresses the implications of the rapid growth in elderly...
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Families Caring Across Borders: Migration, Ageing and Transnational Caregiving
by Loretta Baldassar Publisher Comments A moving ethnographic account of the transnational caregiving experiences and practices of migrants and refugees who live in Australia, with their parents in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and New Zealand. This timely work contributes rich detailed...
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Older Americans, Vital Communities: A Bold Vision for Societal Aging
by W. Andrew Achenbaum Publisher Comments This thought-provoking work grapples with the vast range of issues associated with the aging population and challenges people of all ages to think more boldly and more creatively about the relationship between older Americans and their communities. W...
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Making Your Home "Senior-Friendly"
by Chuck Oakes Publisher Comments Drawing upon personal experience, Oakes sensitively and sensibly addresses the issue of aging and the ability to support the needs of family members and friends, offering suggestions and helpful hints on how to maintain one's own life and career....
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America the Wise Longevity & the True We
by Theodore Roszak Publisher Comments Theodore Roszak, the author of the international bestseller THE MAKING OF A COUNTER CULTURE, returns to investigate the baby boom generation as it prepares to join the ranks of our society's rapidly growing senior population. America the Wise will ignite...
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Living Without Regret: Growing Old in the Light of Tibetan Buddhism
by Arnaud Maitland Publisher Comments An introduction to Tibetan Buddhist teachings and how to aply them in our...
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A History of Old Age
by Pat Thane Publisher Comments Seven contributors examine how the best thinkers and artists of each historical epoch in the West have treated old age. Full of surprising and fascinating facts, this is an uplifting companion for those who, like it or not, are beginning to understand...
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Gettin' Old Still Ain't for Wimps: Laughing Your Way Through the Senior Moments
by Karen O'connor Publisher Comments working funny bone and for anyone who needs to know what the future holds?a whole lot of hope and joy....
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Senior Moments
by Seaborn L. Varnado Publisher Comments In this madcap romp through the life of a typical senior citizen, author S. L. Varnado discusses his problems with telephone menus that fail to connect him with a living person, computers that refuse to compute, and HMOs that motivate him to seek...
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Age in the Welfare State: The Origins of Social Spending on Pensioners, Workers, and Children (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
by Julia Lynch Publisher Comments Examines the different approaches in state spending on pensions and benefits in various countries....
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Age Speaks for Itself: Silent Voices of the Elderly
by Tom Koch Publisher Comments This is the long awaited third book in Tom Koch's trilogy on aging. Mirrored Lives was a detailed first person account of geriatric illness from the perspective of the caregiver. It was followed by A Place in Time; here the issue of elder care was more...
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