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1) From strength to strength: finding success, happiness, and deep purpose in the second half of life
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English
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"The roadmap for finding purpose, meaning, and success as we age, from bestselling author, Harvard professor, and the Atlantic's happiness columnist Arthur Brooks. Many of us assume that the more successful we are, the less susceptible we become to the sense of professional and social irrelevance that often accompanies aging. But the truth is, the greater our achievements and our attachment to them, the more we notice our decline, and the more painful...
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English
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The often-surprising results of Levy’s science offer stunning revelations about the mind-body connection. She demonstrates that many health problems formerly considered to be entirely due to the aging process, such as memory loss, hearing decline, and cardiovascular events, are instead influenced by the negative age beliefs that dominate in the US and other ageist countries. Based on her innovative research, stories that range from pop culture to...
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Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Experienced and trusted Christian counselor helps adults adapt to and live with change and loss, discover the difference between aging and getting old, and discover new purpose in the "second half" of life"--Provided by publisher.
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Hudson Street Press
Pub. Date
c2013.
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English
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A practicing physician and NIH-funded researcher draws on her research and experience to show that our unique patterns of thinking and feeling about ourselves, others and the world may be the key to how well and how fast we age.
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Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The glory of growing older is the freedom to be more truly ourselveswith age we gain the liberty to pursue bold new endeavors and worry less about what other people think. In this richly illustrated volume, bestselling author and artist Lisa Congdon explores the power of women over the age of forty who are thriving and living life on their own terms. Profiles, interviews, and essays from womenincluding Vera Wang, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Julia Child,...
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Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Meredith Maran had a beautiful life in the San Francisco Bay Area: a joyful marriage to the woman of her dreams, a fulfilling career as a freeland writer, a lovingly restored 100-year-old Victorian, a packed social calender full of good times with family and friends. But then, in the course of a year, her marriage crumbled, her best friend died, her dad was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, and she found herself broke and broken. Unexpectedly offered the...
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A dynamic and inspiring exploration of the new science that is redrawing the future for people in their forties, fifties, and sixties for the better--and for good. There's no such thing as an inevitable midlife crisis, Barbara Bradley Hagerty writes in this provocative, hopeful book. It's a myth, an illusion. New scientific research explodes the fable that midlife is a time when things start to go downhill for everybody. In fact, midlife can be...
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Tantor Audio
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
At 78 million strong, baby-boomers have become America's largest demographic. Here, Judd debunks society's harmful myths about aging and finds more meaningful ways we can define ourselves so we can enjoy (rather than dread) getting older. She offers tips on finding simplicity, streamlining possessions, disengaging from "energy vampires," and discovering the most effective ways to support your life force and boost your energy. Naomi has a solution-oriented...
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She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Filled with unexpected good news about growing older, Winters Graces highlights eleven qualities that ripen with ageincluding audacious authenticity, creative ingenuity, necessary fierceness, self-transcending generosity, and a growing capacity to savor life and to ride its ups and downs with humor and grace.Decades of research have established that the catastrophic conditions often associated with late life, such as severe dementia and debilitating...
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Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Old age is not what it used to be. For the first time, most people in the United States are living into their eighties. The first guide of its kind changes the understanding of old age with an upbeat and emotionally savvy view of the uncharted territory of the last stage of life. With insight and humor, Dr. Katharine Esty describes the series of dramatic and difficult transitions that eightysomethings usually experience and how, despite their losses,...
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