Aging Books

Amazingly helpful and easy to read. Sound and practical applications for managing mature horses of all ages.

Increasingly, more and more of us will need some good advice on how to cope with this issue, parents who start acting childish and children who need to become parental in thier loving care of aging parents.

Johnson presents a highly effective methodology to aid one in finding a comfort level in such care, that is supportive yet does not allow for continued heaping of guilt, both from the self and others, including the parents.

This book is compassionate, yet permits a rational, Biblical plan to be developed, implemented, and best of all, to feel good about it. I recommend it to many I counsel with this issue, and they report back its great blessing to them.

A must have for everyone who has aging parents, whether you are taking care of them right now or not. I wish I had this book when my mother first had her stroke seven years ago. I would have saved thousands of dollars, uncountable hours, and immeasurable suffering for her and myself. It is painful enough to watch your parents falter without suffering needlessly.

This book is full of resources from everything from hearing aides to health care, how to know when and how you should intervene, various types of home/nursing home care, how to avoid duplication or worse, and omission of services.

There are many books available for adult caregivers, but this is the one you absolutely must have.

This book is an excellent resource. I am dealing with a parent who is declining rapidly. She is still independent - but barely. This book provided detailed information on what to expect,and not just in terms of the parent herself. This book dealt with how relationships with partners, children, siblings, and siblings' spouses impact care of an elderly parent. Many books point out that these relationships are changed by an elderlly parent who needs care, but this book provided tips and techniques for dealing with a wide variety of reactions. The book also dealt with the way in which childhood relationships with the parent can impact caregiving, and it provided strategies for dealing with the repercussions of a variety of positive and negatigve childhood experiences.

My parent will probably not be very receptive to our efforts to provide care. She will insist she is still capable of doing everything herself, and she may demand her full independence, even when it becomes obvious to everyone else that she simply cannot cope by herself. This book presents real, concrete ways of dealing with this kind of resistance. It helps the caregiver understand the situation from the parent's point of view and approach problems in a way that make a parent more likely to be receptive.

This book is more focused on how the caregiver can react to circumstances than on the circumstances themself. For example, this is not a guide to how to bathe a frail person, but it provides excellent strategies to cope with the effects of having to give the bath on the frail parent, the caregiver, and on other members of the household and the extended family. I have found many books that provide technical details of how to give the bath, but this is the only book I have read that addresses the emotional aspects of a parent who can no longer bathe herself.

As a peson who will beccome a caregiver in the near future, I am fairly confidant in my ability to swoop in and take over the practical aspects of my parent's care, but I am aprehensive when I think about how to relate to her - what to say and how to say it. This book addresses that question and provides solutions that seem like they will really work. I plan to encourage my siblings (both close by and on the other side of the country) to read this book, and I encourage you to as well.

I found this book really interesting. It is easy to read and very informative. The author, who is an MD and anti-aging expert, is clearly well informed in the field. He is always objective in his assessment of the effect of carnosine on the human body. He is not fanatic about the topic of his book. The book also contains information on other products linked to anti-aging. They are most helpful. I whole-heartedly recommend this book to the general public. However, also people in the medical field may find it informative, even if it is not written with the rigour of a science textbook. After reading this book, I also bought another one by the same author.

My dad has Parkinson's disease & this book has helped me to take care of dad & myself on all levels - spiritual, emotional, physical... It is a very hands-on guide that I wish I had years ago. Don't wait another minute- this book is a MUST HAVE for anyone caring for an elderly relative or friend.

Very informational. Has work pages in different chapters to encourage you to expand your interest, on family & friends - relationships. And time management.

I really enjoyed this book. The stories on the highlighted individuals were both interesting and informative. The writer obviously spent a great deal of time and effort on this project, and I would recommend it without reservation.

Lynn Adler answers the really important question about aging; why live long? The 250 or so centenarians this book profiles have all lived through good times and bad, sickness and health and all feel they have had very good lives. The quality of their lives is what is important to them, not the number of years lived. They all have positive attitudes and what Ms.Adler calls "the centenarian spirit," her unique way of describing a winning combination of attitudes and behaviors. Ms. Adlers message is that we can learn from these extraordinary people to live our own lives well, no matter how long we may live.

I enjoyed the writing style; there is obviously a lot of study revealed in this book in an inspiring and very readable fashion. Ms.Adler honors our oldest old, brings our attention to the lessons they can teach us and gives us the refreshing view of aging as not just certain, but also something to look forward to if we follow our centenarian guides.

Finch and Kirkwood have written a great and insightful book reviewing the premise that chance, operating during the fetal development of an organism, has a significant influence on all future physiological events during the postnatal life of the organism. These intrinsic developmental variations lead to seemingly subtle and, until now, thought to be insignificant, physiological differences between organisms. Finch and Kirkwood convincingly argue that these subtle physiological differences have a significant impact on later events during the life of the organism. For example, whether a given individual will get sporadic Alzheimer's disease or Parkinson's disease. Also, the same variations would have an impact on the severity of the disease (should a person get the disease). This book is a must for any biology scientist serious about having a complete library on her/his shelves.