Product Description: In the next 20 years 75 million Americans will be reaching retirement age. To deal with this sea change, Rabbi Schachter-Shalomi (Paradigm Shift, Jason Aronson, 1993) introduces the concept of "eldering," or mentoring, each other in the years ahead. He contends that we are at the cutting edge of the next stage in our evolution and that elders will bring us into this more compassionate, intuitive, and caring era. In Part 1 of the book, Schachter-Shalomi recommends meditation, exercise, and spiritual healing to help individuals enter their later years, while in Part 2 he speaks to our limited perceptions of death.

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (December 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446671770
• ISBN-13: 978-0446671774
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 0.9 inches
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From Age-Ing to Sage-Ing: A Profound New Vision of Growing Older (Paperback)

Product Description: This groundbreaking sociological analysis is based on three research projects that followed over 800 people from their adolescence through old age. Subjects were drawn from the Harvard Grant study of white males, the Inner City study of non-delinquent males and the Terman Women study of gifted females, begun respectively in 1921, 1930 and 1911. In all three studies, subjects were interviewed at regular intervals over time, a design that prevented observations from being skewed by the distortions of memory and allowed for analyses that distinguished effect from cause. Vaillant (The Natural History of Alcoholism), a psychiatrist and professor at the Harvard Medical School, brings a nuanced point of view and an acceptance of the project's limitations. (Those followed were not randomly selected and were overwhelmingly Caucasian.)

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (January 8, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0316090077
• ISBN-13: 978-0316090070
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 1 inches
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Aging Well: Surprising Guideposts to a Happier Life from the Landmark Harvard Study of Adult Development (Paperback)

Product Description: A guide to reviving your spirits during midlife offers special sections on recovering childhood dreams, enriching creative expression, learning to appreciate our physical selves, heightening consciousness, and much more. Reprint. K. "

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Riverhead Trade (September 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1573226327
• ISBN-13: 978-1573226325
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #27,501 in Books

Awakening at Midlife (Paperback)

Product Description: As the most comprehensive resource on health promotion and maintenance for older adults and their families and caregivers, Toward Healthy Aging, 7th Edition includes the most current information you need to provide effective holistic care, promote healthy lifestyle choices, and address end-of-life issues. Grounded in the core competencies recommended by the AACN in collaboration with the Hartfound Institute for Geriatric Nursing and using Maslows hierarchy of needs, this book includes complete coverage of both common and uncommon conditions in the older adult. Towards Healthy Aging also highlights key aging issues with sections devoted to basic physiologic needs, safety and security, the need to belong, self-esteem, and self-actualization.

• Hardcover: 800 pages
• Publisher: Mosby; 7 edition (October 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0323047300
• ISBN-13: 978-0323047302

Toward Healthy Aging: Human Needs and Nursing Response (Toward Healthy Aging (Ebersole)) (Hardcover)

Product Description: What? A how-to-make-your-life-better-book with more than the ubiquitous seven ways of doing so? In Rules for Aging: Resist Normal Impulses, Live Longer, Attain Perfection, acclaimed essayist and NewsHour with Jim Lehrer regular contributor Roger Rosenblatt boldly offers up a whopping 56 rules for wisely navigating life into your golden years.

Rosenblatt describes the short book (only 140 pages), which began with a column he wrote for Modern Maturity, as a "little guide intended for people who wish to age successfully, or at all." He adds that "growing older is as much an art as it is a science, and it requires fewer things to do than not to do."

• Paperback: 168 pages
• Publisher: Harvest Books; 1 Harvest edition (November 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0156013606
• ISBN-13: 978-0156013604
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.6 x 0.4 inches
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Rules for Aging: A Wry and Witty Guide to Life (Paperback)