In Full Bloom: A Brain Education Guide for
Successful Aging - techniques aplenty for keeping your brain in top
condition late in life
Aug. 18, 2008 – A book on aging - In Full Bloom:
A Brain Education Guide for Successful Aging by Ilchi Lee and Jessie
Jones - has been included in ForeWord Magazine’s "10-Year Special
Anniversary Issue." The magazine only publishes one article that focuses
on self-help books and this year, In Full Bloom was included as
one of seven self-help books that "are each remarkably well-written and
worthwhile. If well-being on any level is the goal, these books deliver
the goods."
Read more...
To age gracefully with humor and a good attitude or
not - that’s dilemma Samantha Landy hopes to solve
May
4, 2007 - In her
new book, Savvy Senior Singles, author and conference speaker Samantha Landy
tries to present an honest, no-nonsense guide for victorious living as an
older single. With humor and candor, she equips readers to become
“savvy senior singles”—intelligent, unmarried people over the age of
fifty who experience life in all of its fullness.
Read more...
CNN Features "Chasing Life" on Living
Longer and Healthier Life
April
16, 2007 - CNN has run a two-part series several times in
April that features Dr. Sanjay Gupta on how to live a longer
and healthier life. The
program focuses on what he learned in researching his new
book, "Chasing Life."
He says, "I wanted to write a book
about immortality. Futurists are envisioning a time when
science is able to beat death, and I was fascinated by what
that would mean, both physiologically and philosophically.
"Most people don't necessarily want to live
longer, unless they are of sound mind and body, without
terrible illness late in life, not confined to beds or
wheelchairs. They want to live their lives like an
incandescent light bulb, burning brightly, until they
suddenly go out."
April 11, 2007 - “Every woman over 40 remembers her
first gym suit,” says Patricia Campbell Warner, professor of theater at
the University of Massachusetts Amherst, whose book published in late
2006, “When the Girls Came Out to Play,” traces the history of modern
sportswear as a universal style that broke down traditional gender
roles. Read more...
'...the grieving aren't lovely. The grieving are a pain in
the neck.'
Feb.
21, 2007 - "Grief is such a quiet word; it makes you think of women in black
shawls, silent and lovely. But the grieving aren't lovely. The grieving are a
pain in the neck." So writes Elizabeth Uppman in her essay "A Chunk of Crystal"
in Hospice Foundation of America's (HFA) new book, Living With Grief: Before
and After the Death. Read
more...
Here is your chance to tell a slice of your life
that can help others
September 6, 2006 – Senior citizens who think they
have an important lesson or sage advice to share with others - you
seldom meet one who doesn't - may have a
chance to get it published in a book. Frank Miles and Dave Eagan are
trying to compile an anthology of such autobiographical stories written
by seniors. Read more...
New book says consumed daily it reduces heart disease
risk 54%
Feb. 1, 2006 - If women would drink a glass of red
wine a day and eat an ounce of dark chocolate, they could help reduce
their risk of heart disease by 54 percent, says a new book officially
being released today just two days before the Wear Red for Women
observance aimed at educating women about heart disease. This may be the
most pleasurable lesson they get. And, it is sure to catch the eye of
many senior citizens, wary of heart disease.
Read more...
Author Nancy Altman says the problem is not
that hard to solve
Feb. 1, 2005 – Social Security Reform, a buzz
phrase for the last few years, seems to have come and gone on the agenda
of President George W. Bush, as indicated by the lack of support in his
State of the Union last night. There is, however, a financial problem for
the program somewhere out there in the future. Nancy J. Altman, an
author and former assistant to Alan Greenspan, says in the following
opinion piece that the program is still vital and financial security is
not that difficult to achieve.
Click to
read her opinion...
Senior citizens have highest rates of suicide around
the world
Jan. 11, 2006 - Every year, close to 1 million
people around the world kill themselves. Florida State University
Bright-Burton Professor of Psychology Thomas Joiner has spent much of
his career trying to find out why. After all, lots of people are
hopeless and depressed, many severely. Why do some people choose to end
their own lives and others don't? The answer, he believes, could save
lives. Read more...
“Train Your Brain: 60 Days to a Better Brain” has
sold 2.5 million copies in Japan
by Dr. Ryuta Kawashima
Aug. 2, 2005 - Go figure. Performing math problems
regularly may help alleviate some of the symptoms of dementia. The idea
is that just as regular exercise is known to help slow the deterioration
of muscles, the same is true for the brain. Read more...
Writers Mature Later Than Scientists Or Musicians,
Suggests Research
June 3, 2005 - Fifty years old may be a good age
for a mid–life crisis but it is also the perfect age to publish a novel
designed to become a best–seller, according to a study of best–selling
novels and their authors over the past half–century. Read more...
We found the online publisher, LuLu,
source of the story above, through an email from Audrey Ignatoff telling us about her new
book on Terri Schiavo. Ignatoff is the president of Senior Arts
and Systems, which provides consultation and materials on
preventing drug misuse in the aging. Read
more...
Blind for 12 years she is working on new book, too
Feb.
7, 2005 - For Margaret Rodgers, life with kids is never dull, especially
when those “kids” are adult children. The 88 year-old has just published
her first book, “The Other Way Home: A Guide for Seniors Who Live with
Their Children.”
The book is a light-hearted look at what happens
when three generations attempt to merge into one “happy family.” It
offers practical advice about the joys and potential pitfalls of moving
in with grown children.
Read
more...
Best,
Cheapest Retirement Investment for Baby Boomers? Exercise!
By Ellen Freudenheim Author of
Looking Forward: An Optimist's Guide to Retirement
Jan. 21, 2005 - People are
always talking about investments for retirement. Financial
investments, that is. If you start treating your health as an
investment, though, you could find that exercise is a terrific
retirement strategy worth its weight in gold.
Read more...
Bush is Selling a Trojan Horse, Says Author of 'The
Looting of Social Security'
Greenspan wrote plan in 1983 that was to save Social
Security
Dec. 15, 2004 - "President Bush is trying to sell
his privatization proposal as a plan to save Social Security, when it is
actually a clever scam designed to destroy the program that
conservatives have hated since its enactment in 1935," says economist
Allen W. Smith, Ph.D., author of the book, "The Looting of Social
Security: How the Government is Draining America's Retirement Account."
More... 12/15/04*
Publisher, Announces 2004 Children's Book
Writing Contest
Leesburg, Virginia,
June 16, 2004 -- GiGi Books is looking for a few good stories - and is
willing to make them into audiobooks. The company announces its 2004
Children's Book Writing Contest, where the grand prize winner will walk away
with a published story and $250. The story will be adapted to audio as well.
Three additional winners will be chosen and their books will also be
published and adapted to audio. Submissions must be 400 words or less and
received by August 1, 2004. Additional details can be found at
www.gigiaudiobooks.com
Older
Adults, Caregivers Find Answers
``The
Merck Manual of Health & Aging''
Published Today
May 18, 2004-- While most books about
aging focus on how to postpone it, "The
Merck Manual of Health & Aging,"
published today, tells the reader what
changes to expect and how to deal with
them, according to the publisher. For caregivers, often overwhelmed
by the demands of their role and the
lack of readily available information,
"The Merck Manual of Health & Aging"
offers essential information, useful
tools and reassurance to help them along
the way. More... 5/18/04*
Author of New Aging Book
Hits Mark
Dec. 5, 2003 - Valerie VanBooven RN ,BSN, CM, only 32, has hit the mark with
her new book "Aging Answers: Secrets to Successful Long-Term Care
Planning, Caregiving, and Crisis Management."
If you want to know more
about her book or buy it, click the link below to Amazon
New Book – Elder Rage – Tells How One
Woman Met the Challenge of Parents with Alzheimer’s
Nov. 4, 02 – Jacqueline Marcell gave up her career as a television
executive to care for her elderly parents. She says that after 40
caregivers and much stress she solved her endless crisis. Now she is
promoting her book on how she did it.
Click 11/04/02*
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for more info from Amazon
"Grandma U" Gets Good Reviews
This warm and light-hearted tale exposes the timely
theme of younger, hipper, and more active grandparents who are
introduced to the dos and don'ts of early grandparenting. Through new
grandma main character, Molly McCool, Jeamoe Franz Ransom creates a
humorous and entertaining journey full of love, laughter, and
self-discovery that embraces all ages.
New
Book
on
Sex
After
60
A
new
book
released
by
Balantine
Books
explores
"the
truth
about
aging
and
how
it
affects
sexual
desire." The
book
is
"The
New
Love
and
Sex
After
60"
and
it
is
an
update
to
a
book
published
earlier
by
Dr.
Robert
Butler
and
Dr.
Myrna
Lewis.
Click
1/28/02*
(if
you
want
to
order
this
book
from
Amazon,
click
on
title:
The New Love and Sex After 60
Free
Reader
for
New
PDF
eBooks
Seniors
are
often
avid
book
readers
and
the
trend
to
ebooks
is
growing.
Now
Adobe
will
sell
ebooks
through
Barnes
and
Noble
and
they
are
offering
you
a
free
hand-held
reader.
Click
for
Video
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for
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Historian
Theodore
Roszak's
new
book,
America
the
Wise
(Houghton
Mifflin,
1998),
is
a
major
resource
for
defining
and
focusing
the
mature
energy
that
has
its
roots
in
the
much
maligned
Sixties
revolution.
The
International
eBook
Award
Foundation
(IeBAF)
has
proudly
announced
the
names
of
the
winners
for
the
inaugural
Frankfurt
eBook
Award,
the
first
award
designed
to
recognize
achievements
in
the
emerging
eBook
industry.
An
eighty-one
year
old
woman
with
the
voice
and
personality
of
a
thirty-something,
has
just
had
her
first
book,
``The
Gutsy
Generation,''
published
on
the
Internet.
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April
16, 2007 - CNN has run a two-part series several times in
April that features Dr. Sanjay Gupta on how to live a longer
and healthier life. The
program focuses on what he learned in researching his new
book, "Chasing Life."
April 11, 2007 - “Every woman over 40 remembers her
first gym suit,” says Patricia Campbell Warner, professor of theater at
the University of Massachusetts Amherst, whose book published in late
2006, “When the Girls Came Out to Play,” traces the history of modern
sportswear as a universal style that broke down traditional gender
roles. 
Here is your chance to tell a slice of your life
that can help others
