Cameron, Julia
Summary: "Julia Cameron has inspired millions with her bestseller The Artist's Way. Now at the age of sixty-five, she shows her contemporaries how retirement can be the most creative and fulfilling stage of life yet. For some, retirement is a day to work toward with anticipation. Others approach retirement with greater ambivalence. While the newfound freedom is exciting and filled with possibility, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TarcherPerigee 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Aging CameronGreger, Michael
Summary: "Uncover the evidence-based science to slowing the effects of aging, from the New York Times bestselling author of the How Not to Die series When Dr. Michael Greger, founder of NutritionFacts.org, dove into the top peer-reviewed anti-aging medical research, he realized that diet could regulate every one of the most promising strategies for combating the effects of aging. We don't need Big...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Aging GregerHuddleston, Cameron
Summary: "As your parents age, you may find that you want or need to broach the often-difficult subject of finances. In Mom and Dad, We Need to Talk: How to Have Essential Conversations with Your Parents About Their Finances, you'll learn the best ways to approach this issue, along with a wealth of financial and legal information that will help you help your parents into and through their golden years."...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2019
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Summary: "Writer Pam Houston once summed it up, "Nice mother-daughter stories are a dime a dozen; pain-in-the ass mother-daughter stories are the ones that grab us." As Long as I Know You makes a compelling read for any adult grappling with a living elder who might also be a pain in the ass, particularly, any reader who wants a tender take on the lethal combination of dementia and defiance. As Long as I...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Georgia Press 2022
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Williams, Mark E.
Summary: 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. As life expectancy increases, Americans need accurate, scientifically grounded information so that they can take full responsibility for their own later years. In "The Art and Science of Aging Well," Mark E....
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of North Carolina Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 WILSummary: This documentary focuses attention on the United States' aging population and the many adult children who are undertaking the primary care for their aging parents, underscoring today's struggle to keep parents at home, tensions between siblings and social, cultural and economic issues. Immediately followed by a 30-minute panel discussion with medical correspondent Dr. Art Ulene which offers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Video 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.8084 CARCohen, Gene D.
Summary: Discusses the findings of current research which demonstate that experience and reduced effects of emotion can result in the older brain being more creative and more efficient in certain intellectual tasks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.6713 COHGros-Daillon, Fritzi
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Aging Gros-DaillonBartlit, Fred
Summary: Sarcopenia, a muscle-wasting and frailty disease, impacts all of us as we age-- unless we proactively prevent it. Bartlit and Droullard, along with muscle physiology expert Boppart, want to share a little known fact with the world: You don't have to fall apart as you get older. Through carefully calibrated progressive strength training and supporting nutrition, you can stave off sarcopenia,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenleaf Book Group Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.6 BARMindszenthy, Bart J.
Summary: "A compendium of family scenarios for those dealing with the guilt, worry, and difficult decisions that come with eldercare. Is it time for your aging father to stop driving? How can you balance your career opportunities with your mother’s care needs? Can your parents cope on their own? Is it time for long-term care? Given their reluctance, is that even an option? Millions of people are dealing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dundurn Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 MINWang, Sam
Summary: In thirty-six each half hour lectures, Professor Sam Wang explores the science and mystery of the human nervous system, from essential neurochemical and neurobiological processes to the psychological and social constructs they are thought to produce.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2010
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Federico, Meg.
Summary: The author relates her poignant and hilariously tumultuous journey caring for her eighty-year-old mother and newly minted step-father who were forced to accept full-time home care.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Holm, Jennifer L.
Summary: Ellie's scientist grandfather has discovered a way to reverse aging, and consequently has turned into a teenager--which makes for complicated relationships when he moves in with Ellie and her mother, his daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD HOLHolm, Jennifer L.
Summary: When thirteen-year-old Ellie's Grandpa Melvin, a world-renowned scientist in the body of a fourteen-year-old boy, comes for an extended visit, he teaches her that experimenting--and failing--is part of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HOLLevitin, Daniel J.
Summary: "Author of the iconic bestsellers This Is Your Brain on Music and The Organized Mind, Daniel Levitin turns his keen insights to what happens in our brains as we age; why we should think about health span, not life span; and, based on a rigorous analysis of neuroscientific evidence, how you can make the most of your seventies, eighties, and nineties today, no matter how old you are now"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.8 LEVMeans, Casey
Summary: "What if depression, anxiety, infertility, insomnia, heart disease, erectile dysfunction, type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer's, dementia, cancer and many other health conditions that torture and shorten our lives actually have the same root cause? Our ability to prevent and reverse these conditions - and feel incredible today - is under our control and simpler than we think. The key is our metabolic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLENorthrup, Christiane.
Summary: "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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hay House, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 NORSedaris, David
Summary: David Sedaris sets his formidable powers of observation toward middle age and mortality. This is beach reading for people who detest beaches, required reading for those who loathe small talk, and also Sedaris' darkest and warmest book yet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 814 SEDSummary: Half a century into their marriage, Chicago artists Jackie and Don Seiden approach the fragility of their elderly lives in their own distinct ways. Jackie, notorious for her unbounded energy, is constantly on the move, inspired to create works of art while also maintaining the couple's multistory, brightly-painted Victorian house. Don steadily sketches in his notebook while facing alarming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SOArmstrong, Sue
Summary: "The question of how and why organisms age has teased scientists for centuries. There are myriad competing theories, from the idea that aging is a simple wear and tear process, like the rusting of a car, to the belief that aging and death are genetically programmed and controlled. In fact, there is no clearly defined limit to life, and no single, predictable program playing itself out:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Sigma 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.6 ARMChast, Roz
Summary: "In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. When it came to her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem ChastHagerty, Barbara Bradley
Summary: "A dynamic and inspiring exploration of the new science that is redrawing the future for people in their forties, fifties, and sixties for the better--and for good. Drawing from emerging information in neurology, psychology, biology, genetics, and sociology--as well as her own story of midlife transformation--Hagerty redraws the map for people in midlife and plots a new course forward in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Aging HagertyHayes, Karen E. N.
Summary: "The complete book of senior equine management and first aid"--Cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Primedia Enthusiast Publications 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.1 HAYSummary: Examines the work of two biologists, Bill Andrews and Aubrey de Grey, who have dedicated their lives to the reversal of biological aging.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Structure Films 2015