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Do you dread growing old? The Last Third of life, from age 60 on up, doesn't have to be feared. When viewed from a Christian perspective, this season of life can be meaningful, endurable, and even joyful, say authors Jane Thibault and Richard Morgan. Thibault and Morgan suggest approaching the Last Third as a pilgrimage-a journey full of purpose, ripe with opportunities for spiritual growth. The authors, ages 65 and 82, dig deeply into the realities...
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A month after proposing marriage, Diana Denholm's husband was diagnosed with colon cancer and later congestive heart failure. Following a heart transplant several of her husband's body systems began failing forcing Diana to become his primary caregiver for more than a decade. The Caregiving Wife's Handbook is a step-by-step communication guide to help women maintain emotional, physical and financial health in their unique role as caregivers to their...
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Olders' Voices describes what it's like to become and to be older. Twenty-nine people tell their stories. They are in their 70s and 80s, one 99, and one 68. People from all over the United States and one from Canada talk about their feelings and well-being now and what they did before they were older. They come from a wide variety of professions and occupations and a wide variety of experiences and beliefs. This is a book for olders to read so they...
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Ser concebido, nacer vivo, superar las enfermedades y peligros de la infancia y la adolescencia no son más que golpes de suerte o azares estadísticos. Conservar la vida durante décadas en un estado relativamente bueno es una inmensa suerte que no debe estropearse con minucias sobreactuadas o problemas inventados.
Este libro es un alegato a favor del disfrute de una vida inteligente y placentera, dispuesta a afrontar solo las desgracias inevitables...
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Autismo guía para padres sobre el trastorno del espectro autista & Narcisismo En Español Autismo guía para padres sobre el trastorno del espectro autista: Este libro es altamente informativo, fácil de leer, claro y un simple resumen de lo que los padres necesitan saber sobre el autismo, el trastorno del espectro autista, Asperger y los desafíos conductuales y emocionales que los acompañan. La conciencia del autismo está en su punto más alto...
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Gracias por tu vida susurra palabras dulces pero alejadas de lugares comunes. Son reflexiones originales desde dos perspectivas diferentes, la de un padre y su hijo, creyente y ateo, sobre los temas que creen importantes en la vida: ¿existen el libre albedrío y la libertad?, ¿cuál es el sentido de la vida?, ¿cómo se puede alcanzar la felicidad?, ¿qué es el amor?, ¿cómo afrontar la muerte?, ¿existe dios?, ¿podemos descubrir la verdad a...
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Even when we're old, God can still use us. In Don't Write My Obituary Just Yet, Missy Buchanan will warm your heart with her stories of older adults living with a sense of purpose and gratitude for the life God has given them. As Buchanan writes in the introduction, "Good stories leave an imprint on our hearts and inspire us to live differently." The 30 stories in this enlarged-print book give us glimpses into the lives of ordinary people ranging...
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"The Caring Code" offers a systematic approach to lead Baby Boomers through the fear and anxiety of dealing with an aging parent to confidence in making the right placement decisions, and is an excellent guide for families, employees, and caregivers in general. Owen-Lee adds "It is never too early to start the preparation process, as this transition can arrive slowly or with critical urgency, so I urge those with aging loved ones to get this important...
49) Runaway Grandma
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Retired widow, Olivia Hampton, age 70, meticulously plans a new future. After faking her suicide, she moves on with a new identity and begins a new life. A haunting tale... can a person ever really escape from the past and start over?
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Know an elderly person who needs a little encouragement? Best-selling author Missy Buchanan, an older adult advocate and a former creativity educator, offers you a bounty of ideas for lifting the spirits of older adults. Her passion for and sensitivity to the needs of elderly persons shine through in this practical book that's packed with simple, creative ways to boost the joy of older adults. Joy Boosters is perfect for families and friends of older...
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Being a grandparent...
...is the highlight of your golden years.
But how can you make the most of this time and leave a legacy for generations to come?
With the help of their children, their spouses, and twenty-two grandchildren, Winston and Linda Egan have written this guide to show you how you can build close, loving relationships in your family while creating memories that last forever. In this book, you'll discover:
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Moments of Glad Grace is a moving and witty memoir of aging, familial love, and the hunt for roots and belonging. The story begins as a trip from Canada to Ireland in search of genealogical data and documents. Being 80 and in the early stages of Parkinson's Disease, Joe invites his daughter Alison to come along as his research assistant, which might have worked very well had she any interest - any at all - in genealogy.
Very quickly, the father-daughter...
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Don Jaime, a sus ochenta años, debe dar un paso fuera de sus planes: mudarse a la casa de su hijo, su nuera y sus nietos. Nadie estaba a gusto con esto, pero la situación los obligó a aceptar al nuevo huésped. Lo que ninguno imaginó es que esta decisión cambiaría radicalmente la vida de todos.Héroes entre nosotros es un viaje revelador al mundo de nuestros adultos mayores. Nos brinda herramientas indispensables para entender y amar a nuestros...
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T'S NOT YOU! ITS ME! Is a 19 chapter guide to understanding the complexities of relationships, which cover well know stages of relationships such as the Romance Stage, The Power Struggle Stage, The Stability Stage, The Commitment Stage, The Co-Creation or Bliss Stage, and Endings.
IT'S NOT YOU! ITS ME! Is more than just another relationship book. This particular offering is an excellent guide to understand the complexities of relationships that's...
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Through the inspirational, wise, and informative stories of the residents, either in their own words or based on interviews, and environmental photographs of each, this book focuses on various residents of long-term care facilities and especially on the positive facets of their life, their thoughts, and their feelings. The only issue that reaches the media about nursing homes is the negative and unfortunate events that sometimes occur, but there is...
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Rebalancing the Roles in Caregiving So All Involved Are Supported
"When you care for someone who is dealing with the complexities of aging, illness, or disability, you share intense emotions and form deep bonds. You each have the opportunity to recognize what is most deeply human-and most deeply Divine-in the other. This sense of reciprocal sharing-between the caregiver, care receiver, and with others around you-is the essence of the dance in caresharing."
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With her signature candor and wit, New York Times bestselling author Caitlin Moran attempts to answer society's weirdly unasked question: What About Men?
Like anyone who discusses the problems of girls and women in public, Caitlin Moran has often been confronted with the question: “But what about men?” And at first, tbh, she dgaf. Boys, and men, are fine, right? Feminism doesn't need to worry about them.
However, around the time she heard an...
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Who was Louisa Gates and how did she die? LIGHT AFFLICTIONS is a family saga, which traces its heritage back to the Mayflower. Louisa's sister, Emmaline returns to the family homestead, Beloved Acres, to finally scatter Louisa's ashes. Why did her sister's choices seem so diametrically opposed to the other seemingly stalwart members of the Gates clan, beginning with her great, great, great grandfather who bought the rocky farmland in Hartland, Vermont...
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An Ambition to Belong, second book of the Leaving Home Trilogy, is an astute and insightful psychological journey into the inner life of Jim, an adolescent, who is trying to forge his own identity. Trapped in two different worlds, he belongs nowhere: at one end his Polish immigrant inner-city Catholic family and its Eastern European peasant beliefs and terrors; and at the other a late-1950s upper-class suburban Jesuit college-prep high school in suburban...
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Today, more than two million Australians are over 70 years of age; by the year 2050 seniors are likely to make up almost 30 percent of the population. The implications of this are not just political; they are very personal. At some stage in life, most of us will help an elderly friend, parent, partner, relative or spouse make important decisions about their health and wellbeing, housing, care, finances, legal affairs and end of life care.
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