Product Description: Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County. Explores diversity of the aging population and dispels major stereotypes surrounding them. Topics include dimensions of aging, social perspectives on aging, how to conduct research on aging, demographic characteristics of the U.S. aging population, and more. For students. Previous edition: c2001.

• Hardcover: 408 pages
• Publisher: Springer Publishing Company; 3 edition (December 18, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0826102123
• ISBN-13: 978-0826102126
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #548,089 in Books

Aging, Society, and the Life Course: Third Edition (Hardcover)

Product Description: SWAG started as a lark when Thompson began a monthly mailing of her humorous essays about ordinary events from a Southern woman's perspective. Over several years, her subscription list grew to nearly 5,000 people in 28 states. Covering topics that range from swimsuit shopping, to family reunions, to squirrel battles, to sick children, to cemetery etiquette, this volume will fit right alongside the Sweet Potato Queens and the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.

• Paperback: 309 pages
• Publisher: John F. Blair Publisher (August 28, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 089587329X
• ISBN-13: 978-0895873293
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: based on 13 reviews.
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #82,481 in Books

Swag: Southern Women Aging Gracefully (Paperback)

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This book is both an updated version of and a complement to the original Handbook of Families and Aging. The many additions include the most recent demographic changes on aging families, new theoretical formulations, innovative research methods, recent legal issues, and death and bereavement, as well as new material on the relationships themselves—sibling, partnered, and intergenerational relationships, for example. Among the brand-new topics in this edition are step-family relationships, aging families and immigration, aging families and 21st-century technology, and peripheral family ties.

• Hardcover: 616 pages
• Publisher: Praeger; 2 edition (September 20, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0313381739
• ISBN-13: 978-0313381737
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.2 x 1.9 inches

Handbook of Families and Aging [Hardcover]

Product Description: Country music star Judd (Naomi's Breakthrough Guide) offers a mix of salty advice and inspirational suggestions to baby boomers as they age. Based on her own experience, interviews with contemporaries and reliable medical tips, Judd provides a sprightly and engaging perspective on the goal of healthily sustaining oneself physically and emotionally. Judd debunks the youth-obsessed media, which relentlessly stereotype and ridicule seniors. The author strongly believes in honing a positive attitude that includes practicing five daily acts of kindness, such as extending oneself to neighbors. Judd also affirms the importance of building a strong network of friends and family as well as relationships that may include a long-term love and satisfying sexual involvement.

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition (January 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0743275160
• ISBN-13: 978-0743275163
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #366,847 in Books

Naomi's Guide to Aging Gratefully: Facts, Myths, and Good News for Boomers (Paperback)

Product Description: We all know that aging is inevitable–but how gracefully you age is up to you. Scientific research shows that we can turn back the clock through a targeted regimen of age-busting exercise and nutrition. Now, in Fit and Fabulous After 40, award-winning fitness expert Denise Austin presents her own revolutionary, sure-fire plan to help you stay healthy, strong, slim, and fabulous–no matter what your age! By exercising for just thirty minutes a day, using cutting-edge techniques such as yoga and Pilates-based exercises, and eating for maximum health and vitality, you can build strength, shed extra pounds, improve flexibility and balance, and look years younger.

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Broadway (May 14, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0767904729
• ISBN-13: 978-0767904728
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #202,140 in Books

Fit and Fabulous After 40: A 5-Part Program for Turning Back the Clock (Paperback)