Contesting Aging & Loss

Contesting Aging & Loss
Author: Janice Elizabeth Graham
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1442601000

"This volume invites readers to re-imagine the losses of aging by listening to the views of elders themselves. Researchers, students of aging, and policy makers should find this work most enlightening." - Athena McLean, Central Michigan University

Contesting Aging and Loss

Contesting Aging and Loss
Author: Janice Graham
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2010-04-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1442604107

Disease and death are a part of life, but so too is being well. The lively voices found in this book are not shy about stating the ways in which the widely held notion that they are in decline has been a far larger problem than many other features of their lives. For students, scholars, and policy makers, the message is to attend to these voices, and to design and build better programs that address the social determinants of healthy aging and social inclusion throughout the life course.

Aging: Fight it with the Blood Type Diet

Aging: Fight it with the Blood Type Diet
Author: Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2007-01-02
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0425213412

Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo, author of the Eat Right 4 Your Type series—with more than two million copies in print—has developed a brand-new, targeted plan for fighting the effects of advancing years. With specific tools unavailable anywhere else, here is an all-new individualized blood-type-specific plan to gain control over the signs and symptoms of aging. Includes ways to fight brain decline, cognitive impairment, hormonal deficiency, and loss of vitality.

AGING: WARNING - Navigating Life's MEDICAL, MENTAL & FINANCIAL MINEFIELDS

AGING: WARNING - Navigating Life's MEDICAL, MENTAL & FINANCIAL MINEFIELDS
Author: Sharon Sebastian
Publisher: First Edition Design Pub.
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2015-10-19
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1506900127

"Make no mistake; aging in America is warfare. Families suffer, lives are lost prematurely, and incomes are under siege." – Sharon Sebastian, Author As a guerilla journalist, Sharon Sebastian has written a revealing and explosive book that is blunt, unwavering and authentic with shocking insight and information about aging in America that every reader must know. The book, "AGING: WARNING – Navigating Life's Medical, Mental & Financial Minefields, is an unrelenting, take-no-prisoners exposé about the malfeasance of both government and the elder care megalopoly. When it comes to families, our aging population and our veterans, no one should attempt to maneuver through the minefields of the medical and elder care industries without being armed with this book. Sebastian warns, "Families need to know what they don't know." While alerting readers to the pitfalls of aging that are being imposed by a profit-driven care industry and lax State and Federal governments, the author builds the case and the argument that once again in America's history, in regard to how we treat our own, it is time for a radical change; it is time for America to reclaim its soul. Sebastian knows that the strongest credential for conveying truth is being on the front lines. That is why, as a guerrilla journalist, she embedded herself in the elder care system from hospitals to nursing homes uncovering a system that is deeply flawed and a liability to the future of the American family. Sharon Sebastian has witnessed it, researched it, and is now sharing it as she openly warns about the perils of aging in her fight for the rights and protections of all Americans. Sebastian gives critical insider knowledge that may help families remain both sane and solvent. It is in response to the appeals of those voices, the voices of the patients and their families that insist that "the truth must be told," that Sebastian wrote the book, AGING: WARNING – Navigating Life's Medical, Mental & Financial Minefields. There is no substitute for personal experience coupled with first-hand investigations as source material to give vital insight to families who "need to know." The author shares personal experiences and opinions along with those of experts in a variety of fields from research science, law, medicine, care providers, veterans' care, food activists, Whistleblowers and government officials which provoke thought and discussion. Sebastian's multi-year research reveals a system that both saves lives and takes lives as the great and not-so-great practice medicine and elder care.

Healing Your Grief About Aging

Healing Your Grief About Aging
Author: Alan D Wolfelt
Publisher: Companion Press
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2012-11-01
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1617221732

Getting older goes hand in hand with losses of many kinds—ending careers, empty nests, illness, the deaths of loved ones—and this book by one of the world's most beloved grief experts helps one acknowledge and mourn the many losses of aging while also offering advice for living better in old age. The 100 practical tips and activities address the emotional, spiritual, cognitive, social, and physical needs of seniors who want to age authentically and gracefully, and each idea also includes a seize-the-day action to live fully and with joy in the present moment. For those who've just entered their 50s or are well on their way to the century mark, this book promises elder-friendly tips for comfort, laughter, and inspiration.

Aging

Aging
Author: Peter D'Adamo
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Aging
ISBN: 9780399153105

From the author of the 2 million-copy-selling Eat Right 4 (for) Your Typeseries, which has helped millions of people lose weight and stay healthy using the Blood Type Diet, come two new books to help fight the effects of aging and manage the symptoms of menopause. Having written books specifically geared toward fighting cancer, diabetes, arthritis, cardiovascular disease, allergies, and fatigue, Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo adds two new volumes to the Eat Right 4 (for) Your Type Health Library. This time he zeros in on aging, addressing the issues of brain decline, hormonal deficiency and loss of vitality, and menopause, focusing on treating hot flashes, loss of libido, osteoporosis, and mood changes. Dr. D'Adamo offers new information (not included in any of the other Eat Rightbooks) individualized for the four blood types.

Lifespan

Lifespan
Author: David A. Sinclair
Publisher: Atria Books
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2019-09-10
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1501191977

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Brilliant and enthralling.”​ —The Wall Street Journal A paradigm-shifting book from an acclaimed Harvard Medical School scientist and one of Time’s most influential people. It’s a seemingly undeniable truth that aging is inevitable. But what if everything we’ve been taught to believe about aging is wrong? What if we could choose our lifespan? In this groundbreaking book, Dr. David Sinclair, leading world authority on genetics and longevity, reveals a bold new theory for why we age. As he writes: “Aging is a disease, and that disease is treatable.” This eye-opening and provocative work takes us to the frontlines of research that is pushing the boundaries on our perceived scientific limitations, revealing incredible breakthroughs—many from Dr. David Sinclair’s own lab at Harvard—that demonstrate how we can slow down, or even reverse, aging. The key is activating newly discovered vitality genes, the descendants of an ancient genetic survival circuit that is both the cause of aging and the key to reversing it. Recent experiments in genetic reprogramming suggest that in the near future we may not just be able to feel younger, but actually become younger. Through a page-turning narrative, Dr. Sinclair invites you into the process of scientific discovery and reveals the emerging technologies and simple lifestyle changes—such as intermittent fasting, cold exposure, exercising with the right intensity, and eating less meat—that have been shown to help us live younger and healthier for longer. At once a roadmap for taking charge of our own health destiny and a bold new vision for the future of humankind, Lifespan will forever change the way we think about why we age and what we can do about it.

Vision Loss in an Aging Society

Vision Loss in an Aging Society
Author: John E. Crews
Publisher: American Foundation for the Blind
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2000
Genre: Older people
ISBN: 9780891283072

Vision Loss in an Aging Society is a thoughtful and challenging overview that integrates practice and policy issues relating to aging and visual impairment. It reflects the perspectives of leading experts in the fields of vision rehabilitation and aging. This essential reference outlines the critical components of public policy changes urgently needed in view of demographic trends and is an invaluable resource for university instructors as well as for professionals in the fields of low vision, social work, geriatric medicine, rehabilitation, occupational therapy, and public health.

And Not One Bird Stopped Singing

And Not One Bird Stopped Singing
Author: Doris Moreland Jones
Publisher:
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1997
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780835808156

And Not One Bird Stopped Singing guides us through grieving all the events that take meaning from our lives so we can learn to live again. Doris Moreland Jones draws from her clinical pastoral background and own personal experience with grief.

Aging Wisely

Aging Wisely
Author: Viola B Mecke Ph D Abpp
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-08-03
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9781961395169

Growing older brings many thoughts of "I wish I knew that before" This book provides information to help us age as well as possible. Surprisingly, our feelings do not age. Pleasure and contentment interface loneliness, loss, fears and sorrow. At a time when life is thought easier, new problems and situations that are challenging arise. Four stages of aging include the initiation to aging at about fifty years of age, changes in life following retirement, a gradual acceptance of being older, and the final years of eighty-five and older. My interest in psychology was stimulated by observing the relationships that my six siblings had with our parents. After receiving a doctorate from Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, I have taught and practiced clinical in several universities, ending up at Stanford University School of Medicine. Retirement enlivened an interest in sharing aging experiences as I faced them (now 95 years old). There was little literature on the emotional challenges of aging; we know our emotional life does not age. Feelings become more complex, better understood, and increasingly positive for the person.