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1) Keep your brain alive: 83 neurobic exercises to help prevent memory loss and increase mental fitness
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English
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Offers unusual tasks designed to stimulate brain cell growth.
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English
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A manual for boomers and their parents to take control of their health in a broken health-care system. Too often our culture defines the aging process negatively instead of embracing it as a natural part of life. Nowhere is this problem more pronounced than in our health-care system, where "ageist" medicine often serves to worsen our medical issues instead of helping us figure out how to address or avoid them. Renowned geriatrician Mark Lachs takes...
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Twelve
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Part family memoir, part Studs Terkel, How To Live considers some unusual sources--deathbed confessions, late-in-life journals--as well as offering a rich compilation of interviews with the over-70 set to deliver a highly optimistic look at our dying days.
4) Gratitude
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"In July 2013, Oliver Sacks turned eighty and wrote [a] ... piece in The New York Times about the prospect of old age and the freedom he envisioned for himself in binding together the thoughts and feelings of a lifetime. Eighteen months later, he was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer--which he announced publicly in another piece in The New York Times. Gratitude is Sacks's meditation on why life [continued] to enthrall him even as he [faced] the...
5) Summary of Women Rowing North: Navigating Life's Currents and Flourishing as We Age (by Mary Pipher)
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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ABOUT THIS SUMMARY: This is a very well-written summary and guide to the book, Women Rowing North, by Mary Pipher. This summary is intended to simplify the main book for you, for easy understanding. All the major points, strategies and lessons shared in the main book are carefully extracted and presented in this summary so you can access them quickly and easily. But note that this summary is meant to be a companion, not a replacement, to the main...
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