Life Skills Guide - Later Adulthood: eBooks

Do you want to learn the secrets for getting the most out of life? Everyone is yearning for good health. But how can you attain it? Dr. Ankur Patel has been a witness to the physically, mentally, socially, and spiritually fit lifestyle that his grandmother lived till the ripe age of 93. The key element that he noticed was her proactive approach. She took the charge of her own health and worked toward improving it at her individual level by focusing and capitalizing on the aspects that were under her own control.

Today's culture marginalizes old age, often portraying it as burdensome and hopeless. Here is a book that presents examples of women who have found joy in the passing of time as they age with grace--finding fulfillment in their enjoyment of God.

Organized into six sections, each devoted to getting good at: Gaining Wisdom: learning, personal growth, and self-discovery Getting Along: dealing with aging parents, adult children, grandchildren, deepening intimacy, and friendship Getting Better: taking care of your emotional self, facing the reality of our aging bodies, visiting someone who's sick Getting Ready: organizing and planning for the inevitable Giving Back: volunteering, mentoring, and getting involved Giving Away: leaving a legacy, not a landfill

Not only accepting but celebrating getting old, this inspirational and illuminating work looks at the many facets of the aging process, from purposes and challenges to struggles and surprises.

A Guide for Aging Heroes is a groundbreaking work that crushes stereotypes about growing older, overrides traditional societal expectations, and redefines the second half of life as a renaissance. While it engages readers in strategies for cultivating transformative life skills, A Guide for Aging Heroes reaches beyond the borders of the typical self-help book. Aging Heroes is a way of being. It is a lifestyle marked by adventure, personal evolution, service, and wonder. A Guide for Aging Heroes takes readers on a voyage of self-exploration that embraces the inherent interconnections between everyone and everything.

Your indispensable guide to taking charge of the second half of your life. From Dr. Rosanne M. Leipzig, a top doctor with more than 35 years of experience caring for older people, Honest Aging is an indispensable guide to the second half of life, describing what to expect physically, psychologically, functionally, and emotionally as you age.

This book is a guide to help get past the inner obstacles and embrace the hidden spiritual gifts of age. Offering a radical reimagining of age for all generations, psychotherapist and bestselling author Connie Zweig reveals how to use inner work to uncover and explore the unconscious denial and resistance that erupts around key thresholds of later life, attune to your soul's longing, and emerge renewed as an Elder filled with vitality and purpose.

Listen: Five Simple Tools to Meet Your Everyday Parenting Challenges offers readers a practical understanding of children's emotions and their upset moments, and effective tools for easing the most challenging interactions they face each day. Listen shows parents how to build long-lasting, meaningful, relationships that last a lifetime.

Healthy aging isn't simply a roll of the dice. How people age is a choice. Mayo Clinic on Healthy Aging discusses the biology of aging -- why we age and how to slow the aging process. It delves into common health and lifestyle concerns and outlines steps that readers can take to enjoy longer and more purposeful lives.Researchers are finding that genes play a smaller role in overall health than most individuals realize. More often, the life people lead in their later years is a culmination of personal attitudes, decisions made, and actions taken beginning in young adulthood. The advice comes from a wide range of Mayo Clinic specialists, including staff of Mayo Clinic's Kogod Center on Aging. Discoveries being made by scientists at the Kogod Center suggest that aging may be a modifiable risk factor -- a process that can be controlled. The Center's efforts are focused on the goal of increasing human "health span" -- the number of years individuals spend living independently and remaining free of age-related diseases and disabilities.

From beloved and bestselling author Parker J. Palmer (Let Your Life Speak, The Courage to Teach, Healing the Heart of Democracy), this book is not for elders only. It was written to encourage adults of all ages to explore the way their lives are unfolding. It's not a how-to-do-it book on aging, but a set of meditations in prose and poetry that turn the prism on the meaning(s) of one's life, refracting new light at every turn.

On the basis of a theologically grounded understanding of the nature of persons and the self, Jack O. Balswick, Pamela Ebstyne King and Kevin S. Reimer present a model of human development that ranges across all of life's stages: infancy, childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, middle adulthood and elder adulthood. They do this by drawing on a biblical model of relationality, where the created goal or purpose of human development is to become a reciprocating self--fully and securely related to others and to God.