Aging Parents

Bestselling author, Harvard professor, and the Atlantic's happiness columnist Arthur Brooks shares a roadmap for finding purpose, meaning, and success as we age....

For 40 years, "The 36-Hour Day" has been the leading work in the field for caregivers of those with dementia. Written by experts with decades...

With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron shares with us her ups and downs in I Feel Bad About My Neck....

Sorting through a lifetime's worth of accumulated possessions can be a daunting and stressful process that millions of Americans confront every year....

Your boxes of photos, family’s china, and even the kids' height charts aren’t just stuff; they’re attached to a lifetime of memories - and letting them go can be scary....

Julia Cameron tells listeners that retirement can, in fact, be the most rich, fulfilling, and creative time of their lives. This fun, gentle, step-by-step process will help you explore your creative dreams, wishes, and desires and help you quickly find that it’s never too late to begin again....

Unleash the transformative power of Chair Yoga in just 28 days, even if you've spent a lifetime feeling trapped by your own body. Lose weight, gain flexibility, and improve balance from the comfort of your chair!

On Midlife and the Great Unknown, you will engage with poetic imagination as it was meant to be experienced....

Many of us have been raised on the traditional notion of a three-stage approach to our working lives: education, followed by work and then retirement....

Growing up in Alabama, Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads, and a fiercely loved daughter. Here, in brief essays, she traces a tender and honest portrait of her complicated parents....

In this volume, Brackey reveals that our greatest teacher is having cared for and loved someone with Alzheimer's and that often what we have most to learn about is ourselves....

Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school to earn a BFA and MFA in painting. In Old in Art School, she travels from her beloved Newark to the Rhode Island School of Design....

Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact—Noah, Abraham, Moses, Elizabeth, and Anna, to name a few.....

Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying is Ram Dass' reflection on the joys, pains, and opportunities that appear as we age...

Whether you're looking to improve your balance, build strength, or simply stay active without a gym, this guide has everything you need to succeed—along with videos to ensure you never miss a step.

For many of us seniors, life can become boring, lonely, and unfulfilling. We live with the aches and pains of aging and loss of friends, relatives, and significant others....

Enhance your balance and eliminate your fear of falling with this fully illustrated 10-minute home workout handbook for seniors.

According to Duke University's School of Medicine researchers, people start losing lean muscle and bone density at just 30 years of age. By age 50, your strength, balance, and endurance have already begun to wane....

Spontaneous Healing.... Eight Weeks to Optimum Health.... Eating Well for Optimum Health.... The Healthy Kitchen–in each of his widely acclaimed, best-selling books, Dr. Andrew Weil has been an authoritative and companionable guide....

New York Times best-selling author Laura Lippman, a journalist for many years, collects here her recent essays exploring motherhood as an older mom, her life as a reader, her relationships with her parents, friendship, and other topics that will resonate with a large audience....

Tasha Morton is a force of nature: a brilliant educator who’s left her mark on generations of students—and also a whirlwind of a mother, intrusive, chaotic, oppressively devoted, and irrepressible....

Barbara Sher shows you how to rediscover the inspired, enthusiastic adventurer you wanted to be before you became the responsible adult you had to be....

Jeanne Porter King shares 90 devotions written from her own experience as a caregiver for her mother to encourage you to take time to care for your whole self.

Patti Davis, the daughter of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, writes about losing her father to Alzheimer's disease, saying goodbye in stages....

From the heart of Henri Nouwen comes wisdom for the caregiver about the transformational power of relationship in the unique bond between caregiver and care receiver....