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In this intimate and funny collection of essays on the sometimes confusing, sometimes poignant, sometimes hilarious condition of being a woman over 60, Susan Moon keeps her sense of humor and she keeps her listener fully engaged. Among the pieces she has included here are an essay on the gratitude she feels for her weakening bones; observations on finding herself both an orphan and a matriarch following the death of her mother; musings on her tendency to regret the past.

NARRATED BY THE AUTHOR From beloved actress and New York Times bestselling author Valerie Bertinelli, her most vulnerable book yet offering wisdom hard-won through divorce, menopause, and generational pain, with a powerful message of self-acceptance and embracing the past with compassion. With...

Morrie Schwartz, the beloved subject of the classic, multimillion-copy number one bestseller Tuesdays with Morrie, explores these questions and many more in this profound, poetic and poignant masterpiece of living and aging joyfully and creatively. Later life can be filled with many challenges, but it can also be one of the most beautiful and rewarding passages in anyone's lifetime. Morrie draws on his experiences as a social psychologist, teacher, father, friend and sage to offer us a road map to navigate our futures.

As revelatory as Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson’s Elderhood is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life. For more than 5,000 years, 'old' has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans are living longer than ever before, we’ve made old age into a disease.

Even as life expectancy has increased over the centuries, the thought of aging continues to plague men and women around the world. In addition to worries about the physical aspects of aging, people also fear the prejudice that exists toward the elderly. But as President Jimmy Carter demonstrates, there are indeed virtues to aging, as he explores the spiritual and intellectual growth that often comes with old age. President Carter tackles such issues as planning for retirement, adopting new diet and exercise regimens, and coping with age prejudice.

In Sports and Aging a wide-ranging group of physically active people, including many scholar-athletes, fifty years and older, discuss sports in the context of aging and their own athletic experiences. This collection of personal accounts includes a spectrum of contributors across genders, social classes, and racial, ethnic, national, religious, and educational backgrounds to determine whether there are any common characteristics that can promote long, happy, healthy, and meaningful lifespans.

The Aging Revolution is the story of Butler and his disciples: women and men who saw older distressed adults in hospitals and homes, and worse: being ignored by most of the medical establishment. These revolutionaries could not ignore the suffering, and they set out—individually and collectively—to create entirely new ways of caring for aging adults to ease their suffering and improve their quality and length of life.

Welcome to the Rolling Rogans’ ART OF AGING, where Amy and Joe Rogan—a resilient husband & wife duo—roll with GenX through midlife challenges, caregiving for aging family, and the balancing act of life with humor and heart. With our adaptable vanlife past, Joe - the wacky cartoon spirit questions everything with a unique perspective, while Amy - the thoughtful organizer and technical mind brings ideas to life. Each week, we share our own looney experiences, chat with inspiring guests and experts, and hear your stories about the balancing act of self-growth and self-care amid caregiving ...

We’ve all seen the ads on TV and in magazines—“50 is the new 30!” or “60 is the new 40!” A nice sentiment to be sure, but CEO of AARP Jo Ann Jenkins disagrees. 50 is 50, and she, for one, likes the look of it. In Disrupt Aging, Jenkins focuses on three core areas—health, wealth...

This isn’t a motivation podcast. This is a human podcast. A late-night, can’t-sleep, “why does life still hurt like this?” It's the late-night room where silence finally speaks kind of podcast. Hosted by Sandy “Dilly” De Leon and her shadow-twin, Sable Ryn, this podcast holds the emotions people aging alone rarely admit out loud. Here, we talk about the things most people hide: the loneliness, the breakups, the betrayals we carried too young, the nights that feel too long, and the fear of growing older alone while pretending everything’s fine. There’s no “5-step plan.” No ...

Welcome to The Whole Damn Story - the companion to The Latitude Adjustment. On the main show, you get the clean thread: the version that fits the message flow, the runtime, and "polite society". Here, you get our unfiltered spin on it, complete with back stories, side characters, f-ups, and those unavoidable moments when someone says, “Are you sure we're heading in the right direction"? These aren’t outtakes. These are the missing scenes, the context, and the full chain of choices that led to: “Do we have an exit strategy?” “Mic drop moment, baby." and “This didn't go as planned, ...

Aus der Mitte ihres Lebens heraus erzählt Ulrike Draesner ihr Körperempfinden und ihr Altern als Frau. Anhand prägender Erlebnisse von der Kindheit über Pubertät, Zyklus, Mutterschaft bis zu den Wechseljahren schildert sie, zugleich souverän und intim, Erfahrungen und Veränderungsprozesse des weiblichen Körpers. Dabei reflektiert sie, ausgehend von ihrer Familiengeschichte, gesellschaftliche Konventionen im Umgang mit Sexualität und alternden Menschen und entwirft ein Bild der Wechseljahre als Aufbruch in ein "blühendes Alter".

From the revered author of the bestselling The Hidden Life of Dogs, a witty, engaging, life-affirming account of the joy, strength, and wisdom that comes with age. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has spent a lifetime observing the natural world, chronicling the customs of pre-contact hunter-gatherers...

A fifty-year-old Bridge game provides an unexpected way to cross the generational divide between a daughter and her mother. Betsy Lerner takes us on a powerfully personal literary journey, where we learn a little about Bridge and a lot about life. After a lifetime defining herself in contrast to...

USA TODAY NATIONAL BESTSELLER AN APPLE BOOKS PICK OF THE MONTH "Sharply personal and impeccably detailed."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "[A] fiery manifesto of a memoir."—New York Times “Masterfully written, distinctively researched, deeply humane … Genius.”—Anthony Swofford...

The sometimes-funny, sometimes-serious, but always-gay podcast of a thirty-something-year-old navigating his life. CATEGORY IS: AGING GAY MILLENNIAL

The Villages of Imperial Pointe is a brand-new innovative independent living community located within the larger 75-acre mixed-use Imperial Pointe healthy living campus being developed in Lake Charles, Louisiana that is the vision of Dr. John Noble, Jr. Our Aging Reimagined at Imperial Pointe podcast will introduce you to our true resort living lifestyle, state-of-the-art, amenity-rich community featuring 129 independent living apartments in a variety of styles - from multiple one- and two-bedroom options ranging from 700 to 1,155 square feet. Healthy living is at the center of everything ...

What is it about freezing cold water that draws people in? Throughout history, humans have gravitated to cold water swimming and celebrated its healing properties, calling it the secret to good health and serenity. Today, cold water swimmers gather in groups from Galway to Georgian Bay to jump into frigid waters for fun, competition, and even as a form of activism and protest.

The latest adventure from bestselling author Ben Fogle explores what we can learn from nature about living well and living wild. What can rowing across the Atlantic teach us about boredom and about patience? Can coming down from Everest take more resilience than climbing up in the first place?...

Ariston Letrero is a renaissance man: audio producer, insurance salesman, musician, composer, part-time fast food mascot, and a philanderer who quickly and quietly abandons his wife and son, Lucas, at the peak of his mottled career, for a new life in America with his lover Odette.Years and years...