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Working with Toxic Older Adults: A Guide to Coping with Difficult Elders (Springer Series on Life Styles and Issues in Aging)
by Gloria M. Davenport  Synopsis Older adults, like all individuals, have different personalities and temperaments. According to Dr. Davenport, toxicity in older adults manifests itself in negative behaviors and attitudes that can adversely impact interactions with health professionals,...
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Health, Illness, and Optimal Aging (04 Edition)
by Carolyn M. Aldwin Publisher Comments FROM THE FOREWORD by James Birren: Gaining understanding of aging is one of the most complex issues facing twenty-first century science. This book addresses the complexity of the factors that interact and influence the course of our longer life...
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Humor Me #03: Humor Me, I'm Over the Hill
by Barbara Johnson Publisher Comments In this third book in the Humor Me series, readers will find hilarious ways to age both ferociously and joyfully. The work was created especially for those who are young at heart but slightly older in other places....
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Old Friends
by Tracy Kidder Synopsis Tracy Kidder won the Pulitzer Prize for The Soul of a New Machine. House and Among Schoolchildren were national bestsellers. Now this "crackerjack reporter with a common touch" (Philip Lopate, The Washington Post) has turned his talents to his most...
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Handbook of the Psychology of Aging
by James E. (edt) Birren Publisher Comments nd the remaining half are on returning subjects that are entirely new presentations by different authors of new material. Some of the exciting new topics include Contributions of Cognitive Neuroscience to Understanding Behavior and Aging, Everyday...
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My Parent: My Child
by Ruth W. Sanders Publisher Comments My Parent: My Child is a book designed for the public at large. There is a plethora of information on the topic of "aging." The available information is too numerous and complex for the average grassroots person to comprehend or understand. This book...
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How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free: Retirement Wisdom That You Won't Get from Your Financial Advisor
by Ernie J Zelinski Publisher Comments The perfect guidebook for the Saga generation....
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Six Weeks of Heaven on Earth: My Mother's Journey with Alzhemier's Disease
by Frances Lambert Publisher Comments The flesh is weak, but the spirit grows stronger day by day! At the end, it breaks through the Alzheimer's, bringing glory to God and blessing all that witness it....
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Other Cultures, Elder Years : an Introduction To Cultural Gerontology (2ND 95 Edition)
by Ellen R. Holmes Publisher Comments This fully revised Second Edition of Other Cultures, Elder Years is not only the textbook on the anthropology of aging, but also the most comprehensive, comparative study available on worldwide patterns of ageing.</p> <p></p> <p>...
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Adult Development and Aging : Biopsychosocial Perspectives (3RD 08 Edition)
by Susan K. Whitbourne Publisher Comments This completely updated third edition guides readers through the art of successful aging. Leading aging expert Susan Krauss Whitbourne focuses on how individuals can take an active role in their aging processes and make it a rewarding developmental...
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Living With Mother: Right To the Very End (UK Edition)
by Michele Hanson Publisher Comments Gathered from her popular Guardian columns, this is a story, all too familiar, of taking care of an ageing parent, told with wonderfully dark humour. Michele tells it like it is: somewhere between anguish and hope, tragedy and comedy, tears and laughter....
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Love Stories of Later Life: A Narrative Approach to Understanding Romance
by Amanda Smith Barusch Publisher Comments Even with baby boomers retiring and greater media and research attention being lavished on older people, most gerontologists have studiously avoided examining romance among the elderly. Love Stories of Later Life is an appealing and eye-opening remedy to...
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You & Your Aging Parents
by Allison Greene Publisher Comments What I remember most was feeling dead tired and inadequate to everyone in my life. There was no one to talk to, no one who could understand, and no time to try to explain it. Mine was an isolating experience. A jacket for cold weather, advice for broken...
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Couples Who Take Care: Elders Weathering the Years with Strength and Love
by Lou Dunn Diekemper Publisher Comments Dr. Diekemper continues to study aging with the joys and concerns of couples. She interviews twenty-one couples and presents their poignant and penetrating responses to such questions as: <BR>-- How do you keep romance alive?<BR>-- How have...
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The Fountain of Age
by Betty Friedan Publisher Comments Betty Friedan launches a new revolution with this powerful, bestselling book breaking through the American mystique of aging as decline. Through hundreds of interviews, Friedan confronts our denial and demolishes society's compassionate contempt--to...
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Getting Older, Growing Wiser
by Carol Ann Morrow Publisher Comments Few people relish the thought of getting older, but it clearly happens to us all. Whether we're mid-lifers, baby-boomers, or seniors, balding heads, forgetfulness, and expanding waistlines are just some of things that we begin to notice. With the help of...
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Sage Focus Editions #64: Family Relationships in Later Life
by Timothy Brubaker Publisher Comments The first edition of Family Relationships in Later Life (1983), marked the beginning of serious academic interest in the area of overlap between family studies and gerontology. Used by practitioners, scholars and instructors alike, that book outlined the...
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Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries #28: Cicero: Cato Maior de Senectute
by Marcus Tullius Cicero Publisher Comments This is a complete critical edition of Cicero's Cato Maior de Senectute (On Old Age) with an introduction and commentary....
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Life, Death & the Elderly: Historical Perspectives
by Margaret Pelling Publisher Comments A valuable historical perspective on the economic, medical, class and gender relations of the elderly, which until now have received relatively little attention. <BR>This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information.<BR>...
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Tangled Lives: Daughters, Mothers, and the Crucible of Aging
by Lillian B Rubin Publisher Comments The best-selling psychotherapist Lillian B. Rubin reflects on the struggle to forge an acceptable identity through middle age and into old age. She examines the lives of women as they grow from daughters into mothers, and move on into the intimidating...
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