Summary: "Age of Champions is the award-winning documentary about five athletes [Doug Adams, George Riser, Jarol and Leah Duerksen, Charles Wilson, George Gentilhomme, and The Water Wizards] who sprint, leap, and swim for gold at the National Senior Olympics. You'll meet a 100-year-old tennis champion, 86-year-old pole vaulter, and rough-and-tumble basketball grandmothers as they triumph over the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AGEAronson, Louise
Summary: "[P]hysician and [...] author Louise Aronson's Elderhood is a [...] look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life. For more than 5,000 years, "old" has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans are living...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019
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Summary: In a secondhand vehicle she christens "Van Halen," Bruder hits the road to get to know her subjects--transient older Americans who call themselves "workampers." From campground toilet cleaning to warehouse product scanning to desert reunions and the dangerous work of beet harvesting, Bruder tells a compelling, eye-opening tale of the dark underbelly of the American economy--one that foreshadows...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 331.3 BRUGreen, Janice
Summary: "This book is for readers considering divorce later in life. It covers subjects such as ways to divorce, including mediation, collaborative law, and litigation; marital property: what it is, what you do with it, and how to divide assets and liabilities; how to survive financially during and after, and more"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2022
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Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: T.S. Denison & Co. 1919
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Summary: With this latest edition of The New Retirementality, readers will quickly discover how to achieve the freedom to pursue their retirement goals?at their own pace, on their own terms?regardless of their age. Most people won't experience the same retirement that their parents did, nor do they necessarily want to. Page by page, top financial planner Mitch Anthony reveals how new opportunities will...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.7 ANTBush, Karen M.
Summary: This book relates the experiences of three independent women who join forces, buy a house, and establish a cooperative household.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Lynn's Press 2013
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Summary: A sharp examination of the troubled state of retirement in America shares sobering insights into how the real estate crash and limited social security are preventing retirement and inducing widespread poverty in aging Baby Boomers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 306.3 NEWSummary: First permanent European settlement in the United States was founded two generations before the Pilgrims arrived in 1565. America's Untold Story uncovers the story of America's past that never made it into textbooks.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018