Author : Albert Ellis
Publisher :
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 17,5 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN :
The authors believe that everyone can--with the right attitudes, tools, and hard work--invent their own lives, not just live out the scripts provided by an ageist society. Written in a humorous and interactive style, "Optimal Aging" will help readers recognize and combat harmful attitudes that hold them back and develop more productive attitudes.
Author : Anne Harbison Lucas
Publisher : Gatekeeper Press
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 43,80 MB
Release : 2016-10-26
Category :
ISBN : 1619845369
Aging…Get Over It! is the first of the books Baby Boomers and GenXers need to read to gain mastery over their later years. Aging…Get Over It! eases the effort of facing the realities of aging and offers workable solutions. The lessons and exercises are divided into two categories and are further broken down into six tasks: Part l. Think Right: Healthy Mind, Satisfying Family Relationships, and Strong Faith Part 2. Do Right: Healthy Body, Financial-Legal Arrangements, and Rewarding Community and Care Planning. This is a highly practical and gutsy survival manual for everyone over 50 who intends to maintain control over the rest of their lives.
Author : Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Publisher : Berkley Trade
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,33 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Aging
ISBN : 9780425157930
"My feminist sisters . . . counsel women to welcome age", writes award-winning author and founder of "Ms". magazine Letty Cottin Pogrebin. "They discern nobility and power in the elder female. So do I, but I'm not in a hurry to "be" one. I hated turning 50, it's as simple as that". With a winning combination of insight and emotional honesty, she shatters myths about everything from menopause to monogamy--and offers women a new, mindful perspective on the middle chapters of their lives.
Author : Laurence D. Mueller
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 17,29 MB
Release : 2011-07-29
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0199754225
Does Aging Stop? shatters the conventional beliefs on which aging research has been based for the last fifty years.
Author : Brigitte Nioche
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 19,22 MB
Release : 2016-03-05
Category :
ISBN : 9780692623855
No matter how old you are, staying positive will keep you young. In our youth-oriented culture, growing older is a challenge for millions of baby boomers. In this down-to-earth guide, entrepreneur, fashion consultant, and former model Brigitte Nioche shares her personal experience of getting older, staying positive, and preparing for the challenges ahead. Through her charming, often self-effacing memoir, accentuated by cartoons from The New Yorker that spotlight the ups and downs of growing older, you'll learn how to embrace this chapter of your life as a new beginning that can open up a world filled with joy and happiness. To help you find your way, Brigitte shares:* her secrets for staying young and healthy,* advice on using makeup and clothing to look younger and feel better,* why you're never too old for sex,* ideas for staying connected in a changing world, * tips for maintaining a positive outlook as you age. If you are not ready to be old, it's time for Getting Over Growing Older.
Author : Ashton Applewhite
Publisher : Celadon Books
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 10,81 MB
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1250297249
Author, activist, and TED speaker Ashton Applewhite has written a rousing manifesto calling for an end to discrimination and prejudice on the basis of age. In our youth obsessed culture, we’re bombarded by media images and messages about the despairs and declines of our later years. Beauty and pharmaceutical companies work overtime to convince people to purchase products that will retain their youthful appearance and vitality. Wrinkles are embarrassing. Gray hair should be colored and bald heads covered with implants. Older minds and bodies are too frail to keep up with the pace of the modern working world and olders should just step aside for the new generation. Ashton Applewhite once held these beliefs too until she realized where this prejudice comes from and the damage it does. Lively, funny, and deeply researched, This Chair Rocks traces her journey from apprehensive boomer to pro-aging radical, and in the process debunks myth after myth about late life. Explaining the roots of ageism in history and how it divides and debases, Applewhite examines how ageist stereotypes cripple the way our brains and bodies function, looks at ageism in the workplace and the bedroom, exposes the cost of the all-American myth of independence, critiques the portrayal of elders as burdens to society, describes what an all-age-friendly world would look like, and offers a rousing call to action. It’s time to create a world of age equality by making discrimination on the basis of age as unacceptable as any other kind of bias. Whether you’re older or hoping to get there, this book will shake you by the shoulders, cheer you up, make you mad, and change the way you see the rest of your life. Age pride! “Wow. This book totally rocks. It arrived on a day when I was in deep confusion and sadness about my age. Everything about it, from my invisibility to my neck. Within four or five wise, passionate pages, I had found insight, illumination, and inspiration. I never use the word empower, but this book has empowered me.” —Anne Lamott, New York Times bestselling author
Author : Susan Wilner Golden
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 35,38 MB
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 163369948X
The $22 trillion opportunity that can be unlocked only if you rethink everything you think you know about people over sixty. In the time it takes you to read this, another twenty Americans will turn sixty-five. Ten thousand people a day are crossing that threshold, and that number will continue to grow. In fifteen years, Americans aged sixty-five and over will outnumber those under age eighteen. Nearly everywhere in the world, people over sixty are the fastest-growing age group. Longevity presents an opportunity that companies need to develop a strategy for. Estimates put the global market for this demographic at a whopping $22 trillion across every industry you can imagine. Entertainment, travel, education, health care, housing, transportation, consumer goods and services, product design, tech, financial services, and many others will benefit, but only if marketers unlearn what they think they know about this growing population. The key is to stop thinking of older adults as one market. Stage (Not Age) is the concise guide to helping companies understand that people over sixty are a deeply diverse population. They're traveling through different life stages and therefore want and need different products and services. This book helps you reset your understanding of what an "old person" is. It demonstrates how three people, all seventy years old, may not even be in the same market segment. It identifies the systemic barriers to entering this market and provides ways to overcome them. And it shares the best practices of companies that have successfully shifted to a Stage (Not Age) mentality. This practical guide prepares companies and marketers for an inevitable shift they can't ignore.
Author : Stephanie Dolgoff
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,23 MB
Release : 2010-08-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0345521471
When men stop making lecherous catcalls and Spanx get comfortable in your lingerie drawer, when marketers target you for Activia instead of $200 premium denim, when you have to start wearing makeup to get that “I’m not wearing any makeup” glow and are “ma’amed” outside the Deep South, it may dawn on you that somehow you have crossed an invisible line: You are not the young, relevant, in-the-mix woman you used to be. But neither are you old, or even what you think of as middle-aged. You are no longer what you were, but not quite sure what you are. Stephanie Dolgoff calls this stage of a woman’s life “Formerly,” the state of mind and body she herself is in now: Her roaring twenties are behind her, but she’s not in hot flash territory, either. My Formerly Hot Life, showcasing Dolgoff’s wacky and wise observations about this little-discussed flux time, demonstrates that becoming a Formerly is intensely poignant if you’re paying attention, and hilarious even if you’re not. From fashion to friendship, beauty to body image, married sex to single searching, mothering to careering (or both), Dolgoff reveals the upside to not being forever 21—even as you watch the things you once thought were so essential to a happy life go the way of the cassette tape. You may be formerly thin, formerly cool, formerly (seemingly) carefree, formerly cutting-edge, but in reading My Formerly Hot Life you are reminded that you are finally more comfortable in your skin (formerly obsessed with your weight), finally following your instincts (formerly ruled by the opinions of others), and finally happy with where you are (formerly focused on the guy or job you thought would take you where you thought you should be). While you may no longer be as close to the media-machine-generated idea of fabulous, you can do many, many more things fabulously. Wildly entertaining and inspiring, My Formerly Hot Life proves that once you let yourself laugh about that which is passing, life is richer, more fun, and more satisfying. Despite what you’re led to believe, growing older most certainly means growing better.
Author : Carol Orsborn
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 35,21 MB
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1620453770
In her breakthrough generational memoir, Boomer expert Carol Orsborn relates the ups and downs of a tumultuous year spent facing, busting, and ultimately triumphing over the stereotypes of growing old. Along the way, she nurtures a love-starved friend through a doomed affair with a younger man, wrestles with the meaning of an exploding fish, and regains her passion for life at the side of her squirrel-crazed dog, Lucky. The message is as deep as it is engaging. In Carol’s own words, “Plummet into aging, stare mortality in the eye, surrender everything and what else is there left to fear? The way is perilous, danger on all sides. But we can be part of a generation no longer afraid of age. We are becoming, instead, a generation fierce with age.”
Author : Leslie Leyland Fields
Publisher : Kregel Publications
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 16,9 MB
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0825445221
Women past a certain age often feel like they are fading into the background of life. The nest is emptying, limitations are increasing, and fear about aging and the years ahead grow. Even women of faith can feel a waning sense of value, regardless of biblical examples of godly women yielding fruit long after their youth is gone. But despite a youth-obsessed culture, the truth is that the second half of life can often be the richest. It's time to stop dreading and start embracing the wonder of life after 40. Here, well-known women of faith from 40 to 85 tackle these anxieties head-on and upend them with humor, sass, and spiritual wisdom. These compelling and poignant first-person stories are from amazing and respected authors including: Lauren F. Winner Joni Eareckson Tada Elisa Morgan Madeleine L'Engle Kay Warren These women provide much-needed role models--not for aging gracefully but for doing so honestly, faithfully, and with eyes open to wonder and deep theology along the way. Each essay provides insight into God's perspective on these later years, reminding readers that it's possible to serve the kingdom of God and His people even better with a little extra life experience to guide you. The Wonder Years is an inspiring and unforgettable guide to making these years the most fruitful and abundant of your life.
