Summary of Honest Aging by Rosanne M. Leipzig:An Insider’s Guide to the Second Half of Life
Summary of Honest Aging by Rosanne M. Leipzig:An Insider’s Guide to the Second Half of Life

Author: thomas francis

Publisher: BookSummaryGr

Published: 2024-04-30

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13:

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Honest Aging As a geriatric specialist, I frequently encounter the question "Is this typical for getting older?" from patients, families, and others. Normal changes associated with aging can impact daily life and emotions, and simple aids like glasses can greatly enhance quality of life. Aging is a varied experience, with some individuals resisting it, others dreading it, and some embracing it. This book, titled "Life is a Journey," is intended to support older adults, their families, and anyone interested in understanding the aging process and what it entails. It doesn't advocate for reversing aging or promoting unrealistic age ideals, nor does it substitute professional medical advice. Instead, it serves as a resource for older adults and their loved ones, offering insights into aging and strategies for navigating its challenges.

Honest Aging
Honest Aging

Author: Rosanne M. Leipzig

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2023-01-10

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 1421444704

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Enriched by illustrations, patient stories, and deep dives into science and the latest research, Honest Aging gives you the tools to take control of your health and well-being as you age.

Second Opinion
Second Opinion

Author: Dr. Eric A. Rose

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2015-02-10

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 1466890908

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Second Opinion is the definitive resource for any of the 15 million people each year who are told they need surgery. This is the one book to turn to when you are sorting out whether or not to have surgery. Dr. Eric Rose and his collegues provide patients a reassuring arsenal of approaches and alternatives so they can participate fully in this important process to assure the best possible outcome. You'll want to bring Second Opinion with you for note-taking, list making, references, and support. It will help you be your own best advocate. Other features include: *45 of the most common operations described in detail *Full illustrations *Reasons to have the operation *What can happen if you don't *Possible complications *What to expect after surgery *Extensive, unbiased resources for getting a second opinion *Patient's worksheets, notes, and rights

Healthy Aging For Dummies
Healthy Aging For Dummies

Author: Brent Agin

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-05-04

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 1118068327

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Look to this book for advice, techniques, and strategies to help people stay vigorous and healthy as they grow older. People are becoming increasingly knowledgeable about managing their health as they age. Healthy Aging For Dummies explains how people can embark on a healthy lifestyle that will enable them to feel young, both mentally and physically, even as they’re getting older. It covers tips and advice on choosing the ideal physician; starting an exercise program; learning to meditate; taking the right vitamins and herbs; dealing with or preventing heart disease, cancer, and dementia; replacing negative thinking with positive thinking; and building memory and learning skills.

May I Be Frank
May I Be Frank

Author: Frank Ferrante

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 1583948791

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"What happens when Tony Soprano meets Deepak Chopra? That's how people have described my story. I might throw some Woody Allen in there and a dash of Hunter S. Thompson." So says Frank Ferrante of his amazing journey from obesity and drug addiction to vibrant health and happiness. At 54 years old, Ferrante was the least likely candidate for a major personal transformation. He weighed close to 300 pounds and suffered from a slew of issues that were his unhappy legacy as an ex-junkie and ex-alcoholic: hepatitis C, chronic fatigue, joint pain, respiratory issues, depression, suicidal thoughts, and a libido that had gone into early retirement. He thought that "vegan" was a planet, "wellness" was not in his vocabulary, and he couldn't be bothered with self-help. He was for those very reasons the best candidate for a major personal transformation. One day, he stumbled into Caf Gratitude--a vegan raw food restaurant run by three 20-something hipsters. Unbeknownst to him, they'd been thinking about finding someone to put on a raw food diet and making a documentary that would be the polar opposite of Super Size Me. Ferrante was looking for something, anything, to create a shift in his life. As he says, "Like zillions of people, I was hungry not so much for food, but for love." Never mind that he was old enough to be the boys' father or that he'd ridiculed the New Age herd for years--he accepted them pretty much on the spot as his new "transformational cheerleaders." With the young men's unexpected support and guidance, Ferrante began a redemptive odyssey that included a plant-based diet, yoga, and daily affirmations--but then faced a battle for his life when his underlying addictions rose up to claim him. May I Be Frank chronicles Ferrante's experience of being the subject of a physical, mental, and spiritual makeover and also describes what happened next, post-transformation: he learned to love again.

Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909
Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909

Author: Emma Goldman

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 670

ISBN-13: 9780520225695

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This second of a three-volume set documenting Emma Goldman's life and work in the United States covers the years from 1902 through the end of 1909, from the 1901 assassination of President McKinley by a Polish-American anarchist through Goldman's participation in a wider political sphere that began with her launch of the anarchist magazine Mother Earth.

Eightysomethings
Eightysomethings

Author: Katharine Esty

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2019-09-10

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1510743197

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**Winner of the American Book Fest Best Book Award in "Health: Aging/50+"** This invaluable guide will help the historical number of eightysomethings live fulfilled, happy lives long into their twilight years. Personal stories illustrate how real people in their eighties are living and how they make sense of their lives. Old age is not what it used to be. For the first time ever, most people in the United States are living into their eighties. The first guide of its kind, Eightysomethings changes our understanding of old age with an upbeat and emotionally savvy view of the uncharted territory of the last stage of life. With insight and humor, Dr. Katharine Esty describes the series of dramatic and difficult transitions that eightysomethings usually experience and how, despite their losses, they so often find themselves unexpectedly happy. Living into one’s eighties doesn’t have to mean declining health and loneliness: Dr. Esty shows readers how to embrace—and thrive during—the later stages of life. Based on her more than 120 interviews around the country, Esty explores the lives of ordinary eightysomethings—their attitudes, activities, secrets, worries, purposes, and joys. Esty adds her wisdom and perspective to this multi-dimensional look at being old as a social psychologist, a practicing psychotherapist, and as an eighty-four-year-old widow living in a retirement community. Eightysomethings is a must-read for people in their eighties, and also for their families. Adult children—often bewildered by their aging parents—need a wise guide like Eightysomethings to help them navigate their parents’ last stage of life with real-world guidelines and conversation starters. Readers, young and old alike, will find this first-of-its-kind book eye-opening, comforting, and filled with practical tips.

Barbara Park
Barbara Park

Author: Molly Kolpin

Publisher: Capstone

Published: 2013-07

Total Pages: 25

ISBN-13: 1476534381

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"Presents the life and career of Barbara Park, including her childhood, education, and milestones as a best selling children's author"--Provided by publisher.

Notes of a Son and Brother and The Middle Years
Notes of a Son and Brother and The Middle Years

Author: Henry James

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Published: 2011-05-03

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 0813930901

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After a childhood divided between America and Europe, Henry James settled with his family in New England, first in what he regarded as an outpost of Europe, Newport, and later in Cambridge. The family letters (the initial inspiration for this autobiographical enterprise), many of which recount the early career of William James at Harvard and in Germany, also reveal Henry James Sr.’s views on the intellectual, philosophical, and social issues of the time. Henry Jr., aspiring to be "just literary," acknowledges his indebtedness to the widely cultured artist John La Farge, whose friendship he enjoyed during adolescence. The Civil War is recorded through the letters of his younger brother, Wilky, while Henry recalls a Whitmanesque longing for the Union soldiers he met and talked to. The death of a beloved cousin, Mary Temple, who would become the inspiration for some of his greatest fictional heroines, is documented through the passionate, questioning letters she wrote in her final year of life. In The Middle Years James, newly resident in London, gives his impressions of some of the literary "lions" of the time, most notably George Eliot and Tennyson. This first fully annotated critical edition of Notes of a Son and Brother and The Middle Years both offers the reader extensive support in appreciating the demands of James’s late prose and illuminates the context in which one of literature’s most influential figures developed a characteristic voice.

Aging Alone
Aging Alone

Author: Ruth Alvarez

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-07-19

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9781548984632

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What concerns do you have as you grow older without a spouse or partner by your side? Are you worried that you might outlive your money, or have nowhere to turn if you become seriously ill or hurt or want to make new friends in your age group? This book will help you find answers to those questions and more. Ms. Alvarez also is the author of CCRCs: Find the Right Continuing Care Retirement Community for Yourself Or a Loved One