A Bittersweet Season
Caring for Our Aging Parents--and Ourselves
Written by Jane Gross
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $15.95
When Jane Gross found herself suddenly thrust into a caretaker role for her eighty-five year-old mother, she was forced to face challenges that she had never imagined. As she and her younger brother struggled to move her mother into an assisted living facility, deal with seemingly never-ending costs, and adapt to...
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Red Hot Mamas
Coming into Our Own at Fifty
Written by Colette Dowling
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: June 22, 2011
Price: $11.99
Colette Dowling's uplifting book celebrates the myriad possibilities for women who are now turning 50. "Red hot mamas" are the dozens of women (some famous, some not) who are defying stereotypes to discover renewed power and vitality at midlife. In honest, empowering language, the women share with readers their energetic approaches...
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A Bittersweet Season
Caring for Our Aging Parents--and Ourselves
Written by Jane Gross
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: April 26, 2011
Price: $11.99
Just a few of the vitally important lessons in caring for your aging parent—and yourself—from Jane Gross in
A Bittersweet Season
As painful as the role reversal between parent and child may be for you, assume it is worse for your mother or father, so take care not to demean or humiliate...
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The Staircase Letters
An Extraordinary Friendship at the End of Life
Written by Arthur Motyer
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 13, 2010
Price: $9.99
Full of the magic of everyday life in the shadow of death–chickens must be cooked for dinner parties, and grandson’s questions about God must be answered!–
The Staircase Letters is a moving and profound story of friendship and facing the end of life.
When Elma Gerwin found out in 2001 at the age...
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If I Live to Be 100
Lessons from the Centenarians
Written by Neenah Ellis
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: March 3, 2010
Price: $9.99
Neenah Ellis's New York Times bestselling
If I Live to Be 100 takes us inside the world of the very old and invites us to learn from them the art of living well for an exceptionally long period of time. Their stories add up to a course in living, with lessons...
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Insider's Guide to Better Nursing Home Care
75 Tips You Should Know
Written by Donna M. Reed
Format: Trade Paperback, 222 pages
On Sale: November 25, 2008
Price: $17.99
As the baby-boomer generation ages, nursing home care is likely to become a major social problem. New residents will put huge strains on already short staffing at a time when funding to government-assisted homes (75 percent of all nursing homes) is lower than ever.
Based on her ten years of...
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The Staircase Letters
An Extraordinary Friendship at the End of Life
Written by Arthur Motyer
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $13.95
Full of the magic of everyday life in the shadow of death–chickens must be cooked for dinner parties, and grandson’s questions about God must be answered!–
The Staircase Letters is a moving and profound story of friendship and facing the end of life.
When Elma Gerwin found out in 2001 at the age...
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60 On Up
The Truth about Aging in the Twenty-first Century
Written by Lillian Rubin
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2008
Price: $15.00
Getting old sucks, says best-selling author Dr. Lillian Rubin. With refreshing candor, she digs down under the statistics about our graying population and offers a provocative and unflinching examination of all the burning issues that mark aging today. Tackling the subject over a broad swath of the population, cutting across race...
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The Art of Aging
A Doctor's Prescription for Well-Being
Written by Sherwin B. Nuland
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $16.00
In his landmark book
How We Die, Sherwin B. Nuland profoundly altered our perception of the end of life. Now in
The Art of Aging, Dr. Nuland steps back to explore the impact of aging on our minds and bodies, strivings and relationships. Melding a scientist’s passion for truth with a...
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Eldercare 911
The Caregiver's Complete Handbook for Making Decisions
Written by Susan Beerman
Format: Trade Paperback, 668 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2008
Price: $26.99
Publishers Weekly hailed the first edition of Eldercare 911 as an "excellent, comprehensive guidebook." Today it continues to be the best "how to" book on the market for anyone facing the challenges of caring for an elderly loved one. Now this revised, updated, and expanded edition will offer the best step-by-step...
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What If It's Not Alzheimer's?
A Caregiver's Guide to Dementia
Edited by Lisa Radin
Format: Trade Paperback, 360 pages
On Sale: December 31, 2007
Price: $22.99
Although the public most often associates dementia with Alzheimer’s disease, the medical profession now distinguishes various types of "other" dementias. This book is the first comprehensive guide dealing with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), one of the largest groups of non-Alzheimer’s dementias. The contributors are either specialists in their fields or have exceptional...
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The Art of Aging
A Doctor's Prescription for Well-Being
Written by Sherwin B. Nuland
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 27, 2007
Price: $13.99
In his landmark book
How We Die, Sherwin B. Nuland profoundly altered our perception of the end of life. Now in
The Art of Aging, Dr. Nuland steps back to explore the impact of aging on our minds and bodies, strivings and relationships. Melding a scientist’s passion for truth with a...
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If I Live to Be 100
Lessons from the Centenarians
Written by Neenah Ellis
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: March 23, 2004
Price: $14.00
Neenah Ellis's New York Times bestselling
If I Live to Be 100 takes us inside the world of the very old and invites us to learn from them the art of living well for an exceptionally long period of time. Their stories add up to a course in living, with lessons...
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Also available as an
eBook.