Showing results for "Green" in Ageing

Bloomsbury presents Rasayana written and read by Geeta Vara ‘Geeta shows how Ayurvedic rejuvenation supports strength, resilience and wellbeing’ – Jasmine Hemsley What if vitality is not lost with age, but lost in the way we live? We live in a culture of optimisation, yet many of us still...

Bloomsbury presents From Strength to Strength written and read by Arthur C. Brooks. THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'In this book, Arthur C. Brooks helps people find greater happiness as they age and change' – The Dalai Lama 'This book is amazing' – Chris Evans 'A valuable guide to finding...

In Garden for Life, Rhonda Fleming Hayes brings a lifetime of gardening experience, research-based advice, and collective wisdom to older gardeners who are looking for inspiration and practical strategies. This delightful comprehensive guide presents new techniques and tools to make gardening less strenuous, and highlights plants that "multitask" to make a garden more sustainable—for both the gardener and the environment. It also advises on how and when to ask for help to lighten the load so we can focus on the life-enhancing aspects of spending time in the garden.

Bloomsbury presents Grand Expectaions by Celia Dodd, read by Nano Nagle The wise guide to navigating family life as a grandparent Grandparents are more important in families than ever before, with millions providing free childcare. But while the joys of being a grandparent are widely celebrated...

The slow violence being inflicted on our environment—through everything from carbon emissions to plastic pollution—also represents an impending public health catastrophe. Yet standard health care practices are more concerned with short-term outcomes than long-term sustainability. Every resource used to deliver medical care, from IV tubes to antibiotics to electricity, has a significant environmental impact. This raises an urgent ethical dilemma: in striving to improve the health outcomes of individual patients, are we damaging human health on a global scale?

Bloomsbury presents The Essential Family Guide to Caring for Older People by Deborah Stone, read by Maggie Ollerenshaw. No one wants to think about getting older. It’s true. At any age, when things are moving along normally day to day and everyone seems fit and well, there seems no reason to...

Bloomsbury presents All Grown Up by Celia Dodd, read by Deryn Edwards. When children grow up and become adults we often assume, as parents, that our job is done. In fact it's just the beginning of a whole new stage in our lifelong connection. Relationships with adult children are an aspect of...

Bloomsbury presents The Age of Ageing Better? by Dr Anna Dixon, read by Gabrielle Glaister. 'Dr Anna Dixon has written a must-read for anyone interested in the future of ageing. Learn from one of the best informed about an issue, and opportunity, that is facing us all.' – Andy Briggs, Head of...

Bloomsbury presents We all know how this ends by Anna Lyons and Louise Winter, read by Anna Lyons and Louise Winter. 'Wonderful, thoughtful, practical' – Cariad Lloyd, Griefcast 'Encouraging and inspiring' – Dr Kathryn Mannix, author of Amazon bestseller With the End in Mind We all know how...

Bloomsbury presents When We're 64 written and read by Louise Ansari. The essential guide to making sure you have a fabulous later life. You’re likely to live longer than you think. Today’s fifty-year olds could have an astounding 36 or more years of life. What’s your dream life for your...

Bloomsbury presents The Ten Steps of Positive Ageing written and read by Guy Robertson. Can ageing really be a positive experience? Yes. You can make a difference to your own ageing process. Research shows that how we think about ageing can have a significant impact on our health and wellbeing...

Aging is not guaranteed decline. It is what happens when your cells stop getting the right kind of challenge and start coasting. Most people buffer themselves from discomfort, then wonder why energy, strength, focus, and resilience erode faster every year. Anti Fragile Aging (book title shortened) shows how controlled stress signals switch dormant repair pathways back on so you feel and perform years younger.

Menopause isn't a slow fade—it's a biochemical jailbreak, and "The Unapologetic Menopause" is your field manual for escaping the old script. Drawing on cutting-edge endocrinology, gripping case studies, and no-BS storytelling, women's health advocate Cathy Moore reframes "the change" as the most leveraged upgrade of your life.

The Business of Sleep provides practical ways of mitigating against or reducing the impact of compromised sleep in organisational environments. Drawing on both seminal and cutting-edge research alongside interviews with notable CEOs and business influencers, The Business of Sleep explains to listeners, in an accessible and conversational way, what the research tells us about how sleep works and the impact that lack of sleep can have on your work and career.