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I wrote this as a tribute to my mother, a humble and gently unassuming housewife and mother who loved and understood everything about life and all of its great mysteries. Although Alzheimer's disease relentlessly and ruthlessly ravaged both her mind and body, her soul remained untouched and pure. This book chronicles her struggles, which certainly impacted the lives of everyone for both the better and the worse. In the end, though, her final lasting...
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Insights on Caring for Any Aging Parent• Timely guidance for the challenges• Encouragement for the journeyYou had plans for this time in your life, but now a parent needs care. It's a confusing, stressful, and exhausting time. But it can also be a time of remarkable spiritual growth. Loving Your Parents When They Can No Longer Love You helps you navigate your role as caregiver with God's grace and guidance. And it alerts you to the difficult issues...
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Step Boldly Into Your Radiance: A Guide Through the Tide of Change
Embark on a journey of transformation and self-discovery with "The Menopause Transition: Embracing the Change with Confidence". This isn't just a book–it's a beacon of understanding and a source of empowerment for women standing on the precipice of one of life's most profound shifts.
Your body is charting a new course, and it's time to navigate these waters with grace and strength....
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In this timely book, family counselors Gerald and Marlene Kaufman urge adult children and their parents to have direct conversations about the decisions that lie ahead as parents age. The Kaufmans suggest that families use their parents' retirement as the benchmark for having the first discussion about their parents' plans for the next phase of their lives. The Kaufmans point out that most families wait until they're faced with a crisis before having...
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What's the right thing to do for mom and dad as they get older?
Thanks to advances in science and medicine, more of our parents are living longer than ever before. And though we are rewarded with more time with the people we love, we are also faced with new sets of complications-more diseases, more disability, more need for support and careful judgments. Yet while our health care system may help people live to an older age, it doesn't perform so...
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An inviting and informative guide to sex for seniors, with a clear message that "as far as sex in the senior years goes... the best is yet to come" (Dr. Dean Edell)
Joan Price is talking out loud about a subject that is often ignored or ridiculed in our society: later-life sexuality.
In Naked at Our Age, she offers a candid, straight-talking exploration of senior sexuality - the challenges, the disappointments, and the surprises, as well as the...
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In this timely book, long-time family counselors, Gerald and Marlene Kaufman, urge aging people, their adult children, family members, and other caretakers to talk directly with each other about the decisions that lie ahead as they age. "Do it before a crisis hits," say the Kaufmans. "A good time to start is when the parents retire."
Necessary Conversations focuses on four primary areas:
Parents' finances Parents' medical care Parents' living arrangements...
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What if your pain and lack of mobility aren't due to your age, but your habits? The instructions in this book are the experiences of four women over seventy-five who have used these principles and exercises for years to regain strength and mobility. Bowman shows how anyone over fifty can improve their whole-body mobility-- and move and feel better-- without special equipment. -- condensed from back cover
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