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62) Old
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A thriller about a family on a tropical holiday who discover that the secluded beach where they are relaxing for a few hours is somehow causing them to age rapidly reducing their entire lives into a single day.
63) Treat me, not my age: a doctor's guide to getting the best care as you or a loved one gets older
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A manual for boomers and their parents to take control of their health in a broken health-care system. Too often our culture defines the aging process negatively instead of embracing it as a natural part of life. Nowhere is this problem more pronounced than in our health-care system, where "ageist" medicine often serves to worsen our medical issues instead of helping us figure out how to address or avoid them. Renowned geriatrician Mark Lachs takes...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In the past century, average life expectancies have nearly doubled, and today, for the first time in human history, many people have a realistic chance of living to eighty or beyond. Physician Mark Williams discusses the advances that medical science has made in the field of aging and the steps that people may take to enhance their lives as they age. Through his own observations and by use of medical research, Williams offers advice to help aging...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"We all seem to be searching for the fountain of youth--whether it's sleep more, eat less, go keto, go vegan, or intermittently fast--but the truth is there's no single thing that will keep the diseases of aging at bay. If you want to age well, you have to think outside the box--and that's where health and nutrition pioneer Ann Louise Gittleman comes in. For four decades, Ann Louise has been the go-to expert for answers to our most urgent health questions;...
Publisher
University of the Rockies Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Awakening to Aging is a book for anyone who is on the journey of life. We all prepare for each journey of our lives and we need to prepare for our last great journey, aging and its destination, death. Informative, humorous, and moving, Awakening to Aging: Glimpsing the Gifts of Aging, courageously addresses the largest population ever to age, the Baby Boomers and their families. A collection of essays edited by Myrtle Heery, PhD and Gregg Richardson,...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Full of advice and stories from a wide variety of older people, this book examines love, loss, and changing identities, and will help you take control of your concerns about aging and experience wisdom and joy as an older adult.
Can you continue to live fully in your sixties, seventies, and beyond? Stroh and Brees asked nearly one thousand older people about the challenges and joys of growing older. In compiling their collective wisdom, the authors...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A startling chronicle by a brilliant young scientist takes us onto the frontiers of the science of aging, and reveals how close we are to an astonishing extension of our life spans and a vastly improved quality of life in our later years. Aging--not cancer, not heart disease--is the true underlying cause of most human death and suffering. We accept as inevitable that as we advance in years our bodies and minds begin to deteriorate and that we are...
73) As we grow
Author
Publisher
Tiger Tales
Pub. Date
2019.
Lexile measure
AD 920L
Language
English
Description
"No one knows what lies ahead or who they'll grow to be, It's all a part of growing up - the journey to be me..."--Publisher.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A revolutionary examination of why we age, what it means for our health, and how we just might be able to fight it. In Cracking the Aging Code, theoretical biologist Josh Mitteldorf and award-winning writer and ecological philosopher Dorion Sagan reveal that evolution and aging are even more complex and breathtaking than we originally thought. Using meticulous multidisciplinary science, as well as reviewing the history of our understanding about...
Author
Publisher
Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
From the moment we are born, our cells begin to age. But aging does not have to mean decline. Dr. Steven Gundry has been treating mature patients for most of his career. He knows that everyone thinks they want to live forever, until they hit middle age and witness the suffering of their parents and even their peers. So how do we solve the paradox of wanting to live to a ripe old age -- but enjoy the benefits of youth? Dr. Gundry outlines a nutrition...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Though we talk about wanting to "age gracefully," the truth is that when it comes to getting older, we're programmed to dread an inevitable decline: in our health, our looks, our sexual relationships, even the pleasure we take in living life. But as Christiane Northrup, M.D., shows us in this profoundly empowering book, we have it in us to make growing older an entirely different experience, for both our bodies and our souls. In chapters that blend...