Aging Books

Dr. Josefowitz' insight and humor, sensitivity and candor, bring inspiration and life to the living, the aging and those that fear it all. She touches on the experiences we all share and reminds us of our own humanity, fears, and joys in this thing called life.

Dr. Josefowitz has written a book that will appeal to everyone born before 1945....and probably lots born after! Selections can be read independently and contain practical observations by the author. All of us have similar experiences, so we identify with the material. Weighing more, finding something to wear in a closet full of clothes, adjusting to a world of computers, busy people---the author finds humor everywhere. I've bought 5 copies to give to my friends. I highly recommend this book

This is the best health book you will ever read! It has so many tips and pointers in there for you. It packs thousands of dollars of information into this book for under $25 dollars

I recently purchased Rico Connor's book, 'Total Health 4 Life', and I must say it's the best fitness book I've read! It covers all the pertinent topics to those of us who are interested in not only 'getting fit', but 'staying fit!' If you're looking for a comprehensive fitness book that is easy to access and apply to your life, you need to look no further! This is it!
Tamra Nashman, author of 'Shoes For The Spirit, Encouragements'

The replay value of this set is incredible. Every time I listen I learn something new, and I have found over time that the truths contained herein are things I start teaching to my family and friends.

The stories, the information, the completeness, the benefits are invaluable!

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This is without a doubt the most easy to follow, comprehensive, instructional health program for the mind, body and soul that my wife and I have come across.

We just played it on our stereo and in our car and just listened. It teaches the why's and how's in easy to understand terms. It even came with a supplement guide for us.

My wife and I have both lost weight and she's now down to the weight she was in high school. We both feel great and look way better too.

After listening to the program, we understand why we were both gaining weight before. We just made simple and easy adjustments to our diet and exercise routines. This program makes it that simple.

The program treats the mind, body and soul as a whole or complete being, we liked that. My wife says it's a complete approach for us and I agree. It sure worked for us!

We have nearly all of the Internal Dialogue Series too by Coleen House and they are great.

Thanks for products that live up to what is advertised about them!

Regards,

Shaun Farmer
Bellevue, WA

This should be required reading for anyone in their late 20's. It has several exercises that help you discover what is really important to you in order to achieve the life you really want.

As well as giving interesting information, this book provides a range of really useful exercises to help you make important decisions about your life direction. By helping you create a vision for your future, analyse your strengths and set goals, the activities laid out in the book support reflection and action in important areas of your life. They enable you to analyse what you want and where you are going as you enter your 30s - but would be equally applicable to moments of transition at other ages.

The authors manage to make the subject matter meaningful and entertaining - adding humourous elements that make the book easy to read and follow. The result is a positive and lighthearted guide to some pretty serious issues. The reader is challenged, but supported and encouraged.

Definitely a good read for anyone wanting to take a long hard positive look at their life, what they want out of life and where they are going.

I just read V to the N and couldn't put it down, I loved hearing your voice again and can't quite get it out of my mind while reading that the actual character is in the room with me....its so vibrant, quirky, soulful, funny and heartbreaking all at once. Also I get really caught up in the story and can't wait to see what happens next, the last line is perfect. Please, please write more.\

Written to author by Maggie Deegan, Vancouver, Canada

View To The North is a kindly novel about a woman's life journey from youth to middle age, and her experiences as a wife, mother, and lover. The narrative alternates between moments of "then", times past, and moments of "now", living in the present and confronting the future. Bisexual themes as well as the universal conflicts and self-reflections of a parent watching her children grow up and grow more distant add a poignantly human tone to this introspective story.

60 is the new 40, or so I've concluded from this punchy joke book for the well over 50 set. A fun book that will surely produce knowing groans for those of us closing in on our second adulthood.

An entertaining look at the aging process. The author has a keen eye and sharp wit when it comes to our obsession with staying young. There are lots of memorable quotes and quips to share with friends and family. I found it to to be a nice little conversation piece and welcome addition to our coffee table. Guaranteed to amuse and highly recommended for all!

Ilen Rubenson's, When Aging Parents Can't Live Alone provides step-by-step explanations of alternatives to living alone, and surveys the decisions and choices involved in evaluating physical and mental health, finances, insurance benefits, and safely issues. From legal issues to evaluating facilities and understanding their different levels of care, this is packed with important considerations.

In this outstanding work, Ellen Rubenson provides extensive "nuts and bolts" guides to assessing elders' needs, family capacity to provide care, information on products and services, insurance, hospitals, and alternative living situations. Readers will also find an extensive guide to on-line information sources. Anyone who has dealt with the long-term care system knows that you practically have to be your own doctor, own lawyer and own social worker. This book shows readers how to better navigate these waters. We want to help our aging parents and relatives but too often get paralyzed by confusion, family conflict, guilt, ignorance, anger, burnout, fear, regret, and the sense that we'll be ineffective. Relying on this book will certainly increase the chances of actually being useful while helping to manage all those feelings.

.Rubenson's book is an invaluable guide for facing what we'd like to deny: The US population is aging. The percentage of the "old old," people over 80, is rapidly increasing, and when we "boomers" start to hit our late 60s, we will seriously strain medical, housing, and economic resources. We are now helping our elder parents' deal with their challenges, but soon enough it will be our own (and our children's) turn to make the decisions Rubenson describes. This book helped me to fully realize the personal impact of the challenge our social and economic infrastructure faces.

I agree with others who assert that all great societies take excellent care of their children and their elderly. I also believe, however, that family members should assume primary responsibility for such care rather than abdicating it to institutions and agencies in the public sector. For various reasons, people are living longer now than ever before. When resources and circumstances permit, elderly loved ones continue to live in their own homes or in dedicated facilities which offer assisted-living services. Based on my own experience and the collective experiences of countless friends, I realize that few of us are adequately prepared to address the issues which West-Rodriguez and Dennis discuss in this book. Some involve logistics. Others involve healthcare. For me, the most complicated issues are those relevant to an elderly loved one's pride, self-esteem, and concerns about quality of life. (Those who taken away an elderly loved one's car keys and/or check book know exactly what I am talking about.) In this volume, West-Rodriguez and Dennis offer expert counsel as well as a step-by-step "game plan" which both anticipates and prepares for all manner of situations in which family members and caregivers can become involved.

The book's narrative consists of a series of diary entries by a D.D. ("Darling Daughter") to which the authors then respond. After each response, they also offer "Our Parting Words to the Wise" followed by a "Considering Possibilities" section, one which allows the reader to complete what amounts to an audit of her or his current thoughts about the issues presented. Of greatest interest and value to me is the mental preparation which West-Rodriguez and Dennis assist with when truly difficult decisions must eventually be made: When and how to determine a loved ones wishes? How to accommodate those wishes, especially when they seem to be at cross-purposes with health and/or financial concerns? What information needs to be obtained about sensitive matters such as the loved one's finances?

I highly recommend this book to family members and caregivers but also to others whose counsel may also be desired when certain important decisions must be made. Attorneys and accountants, for example, as well as insurance agents, clergy, and perhaps financial and/or estate planners. This is a handbook but also a WORKbook. Its ultimate value will be determined by the nature and extent to which those who purchase it and read it then follow the step-by-step process which West-Rodriguez and Dennis recommend.

One final point: There is no single source of wisdom, no one book which asks all the right questions and provides all the right answers. West-Rodriguez and Dennis offer a starting point with regard to mental preparation and then some exercises which can help to clarify issues, set priorities, and suggest an appropriate course of action. For that, those who are guided by their counsel -- and their loved ones -- should forever be grateful.

This book is deceptively simple, accessible and full of practical knowledge. I can imagine that the hardest part of putting it all together was the "deceptively simple" part. . . .reducing it all to easily accessible information and guidance. The authors have tackled a deeply affecting topic and will - I sincerely hope - get more people to think about these life/death matters that inevitably face most of us.
This wonderful book made me smile - caused me to laugh out loud a couple of times - and brought me to tears (when I thought of writing a "good-bye" letter to my own mother - my life was so busy when she died that I feel I've never grieved properly, but that's another story). My thanks to the authors for this. It's been a treat and will continue to be one as I go back to it again and again. It has reminded me of some holes in our own planning and these are going on the top of my "to do" list!
The basic concept is applicable to almost any western culture. . . .that is to say, any culture where the care of parents is not automatically assumed to be in the hands of the family. The authors are to be congratulated on not only identifying a huge gaping hole in the market, but in filling it in so well.

I found this book to be refreshing and inspiring. It is full of practical advice and wisdom about how to be more creative and make your dreams come true. It is relevant for people of all sorts of backgrounds, from artists to entrepreneurs to stay-at-home parents. In a series of relatively short chapters, the author touches on a number of topics including how to overcome creative blocks such as fear and self-doubt; finding inspiration when we need it the most; how to drum up the courage to act upon dreams; and the importance of vitality and life balance. At the heart of this book, according to the author, is the importance of listening to the whisper of one's heart, for it acts as a guide through life and is key to creativity. "The Whispering Heart: Your Inner Guide to Creativity" gave me the inspiration and courage I needed to act on one of my dreams that I had shelved for years. Kudos to the author!

If you want to reach a higher lever of creativity and are looking for some inspiration, check out this book. "The Whispering Heart: Your Inner Guide to Creativity" is an enlightening "how-to" read that will make you want to act immediately on making your dreams come true. Peppered with humour, the author at times draws from her own life experiences to encourage readers to push past fears and other blocks, such as guilt and resentment, that hold us back from reaching our creative potential and living a life of joy and success.

Johanna Kern
Filmmaker

This book not only provides a fascinating, rich account of the ways people in West Bengal, India experience aging, but it really makes one think in new ways about the kinds of assumptions permeating aging and dying, family and gender, in our own society (North America). The author, an anthropologist, has spent several years in India. The stories she tells of her own experiences there are some of the most engaging in the book. Particular individuals come alive as well, such as Khudi Thakrun, the oldest woman in the village (at 97 years), who doesn't yet want to relinquish life and the wonderful attachments and pleasures derived from eating sweet mangoes, wandering the village to spread news, and loaning out money to increase her wealth. The book centers on village life but includes as well interesting accounts of old age homes in Calcutta and Indian popular cultural representations of old age. It complements well Lawrence Cohen's NO AGING IN INDIA. This book focuses more on experience, everyday life, and gender.

Ms. Lamb has produced a sensitive look into aging in a particular society, but in the process has touched on people of all ages. In observing the people of India I am able to compare to our value system and to touch values of real significance in living. Ms Lamb writes as an anthropologist and pictures real people dealing with adversity and demonstrating positive outlooks. I found the book uplifting and I look forward to more from Ms. Lamb.