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Product Description: For those fortunate enough to reside in the developed world, death before reaching a ripe old age is a tragedy, not a fact of life. Although aging and dying are not diseases, older Americans are subject to the most egregious marketing in the name of "successful aging" and "long life," as if both are commodities...read more

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9780807835067 | 1 edition (Univ of North Carolina Pr, September 12, 2011), cover price $28.00 | About this edition: For those fortunate enough to reside in the developed world, death before reaching a ripe old age is a tragedy, not a fact of life.

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By David Quammen (editor)

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9781402756399 | Ill edition (Sterling Pub Co Inc, October 7, 2008), cover price $35.00
9780134097077, titled "Later Life: The Realities of Aging" | Taylor & Francis, January 1, 1996, cover price $72.00 | also contains Later Life: The Realities of Aging

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9781402789595 | Ill rep edition (Sterling Pub Co Inc, October 4, 2011), cover price $24.95

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9780135240915, titled "Later Life: The Realities of Aging" | Taylor & Francis, July 1, 1992, cover price $49.88 | also contains Later Life: The Realities of Aging

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9781581975949 | Xamonline Inc, May 1, 2008, cover price $31.85

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Through interviews, research, and personal anecdotes, a psychologist looks at how longevity affects the social, emotional, and economic lives of those growing older in America.

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9780807029282 | 1 edition (Beacon Pr, September 3, 2007), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Through interviews, research, and personal anecdotes, a psychologist looks at how longevity affects the social, emotional, and economic lives of those growing older in America.

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Product Description: The ageing process involves many problems associated with decline whether it be in health, psychology or lifestyle or all three. This book brings together new research on each these aspects.
By L. o. Randall (editor)

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9781600211904 | 1 edition (Nova Science Pub Inc, March 30, 2007), cover price $195.00 | About this edition: The ageing process involves many problems associated with decline whether it be in health, psychology or lifestyle or all three.

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9780130138316 | Taylor & Francis, June 1, 2000, cover price $78.67
9780134097077 | Taylor & Francis, January 1, 1996, cover price $72.00 | also contains On the Origin of Species: The Illustrated Edition
9780135240915 | Taylor & Francis, July 1, 1992, cover price $49.88 | also contains ICTS 110 Elementary-Middle Grades: Teacher Certification Exam

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9780131951587 | 6 edition (Taylor & Francis, December 1, 2005), cover price $129.95

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Product Description: Several years ago, when sixty-five-year-old Eda LeShan was invited by Newsday to write a regular column on getting old, she felt insulted and panic-stricken. "I still inwardly perceived myself as a thirty-five-year-old child psychologist and parent and family-life educator...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780786225279 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, June 1, 2000), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Several years ago, when sixty-five-year-old Eda LeShan was invited by Newsday to write a regular column on getting old, she felt insulted and panic-stricken.
9781557040718 | Newmarket Pr, October 1, 1990, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Essays cover aging, finances, risk-taking, loss, friendship, marriage, work, health, retirement, holidays, and grandparenting

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9780792709701 | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, June 1, 1992), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Several years ago, when sixty-five-year-old Eda LeShan was invited by Newsday to write a regular column on getting old, she felt insulted and panic-stricken.
9781557041029 | Reprint edition (Newmarket Pr, September 1, 1991), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Essays cover aging, finances, risk-taking, loss, friendship, marriage, work, health, retirement, holidays, and grandparenting

A group of life-long friends share their thoughts on aging and eldercare in this unique and very practical book that includes encouraging advice, inspiration, and more. Reprint. (view table of contents)

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9780767906005 | Reprint edition (Broadway Books, June 1, 2000), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: A group of life-long friends share their thoughts on aging and eldercare in this unique and very practical book that includes encouraging advice, inspiration, and more.

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Product Description: Understand the complex ethical, legal, medical, and psychological issues of the most common form of elder abuse!Self-Neglect examines the social, ethical, medical, and practical implications of the most prevalent form of elder abuse...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By James G. O'Brien (editor)

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9780789009753 | Routledge, September 1, 1999, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Understand the complex ethical, legal, medical, and psychological issues of the most common form of elder abuse!

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9780789009937, titled "Self Neglect: Challenges for Helping Professionals" | Routledge, January 1, 2000, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Understand the complex ethical, legal, medical, and psychological issues of the most common form of elder abuse!

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Product Description: Dr. Diekemper continues to study aging with the joys and concerns of couples. She interviews twenty-one couples and presents their poignant and penetrating responses to such questions as: -- How do you keep romance alive?-- How have you adapted to physical changes?-- Do you think that you have lost any of your personal identity from your years of being partners?-- What advice and suggestions would you give those who will become elders...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781577330608 | Blue Dolphin Pub, October 1, 1999, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Dr.

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Product Description: Still Kicking: Restorative Groups for Frail Older Adults offers a unique, proven model for group work with frail older adults. Through gentle exercise and social interaction, you can help strengthen and reenergize older individuals who are losing their ability to live independently, are becoming socially isolated, and may fall between the cracks of formal care services...read more

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9781878812483 | Health Professions Pr, January 1, 1999, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: Still Kicking: Restorative Groups for Frail Older Adults offers a unique, proven model for group work with frail older adults.

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Product Description: With candor and insight, the author analyzes firsthand decriptions of the experience of aging discovered in selected writings, personal interviews, and her work as counselor and companion to individuals over eighty. She provides a summary of the challenges and special joys of aging, plus practical suggestions for living spiritually and fully in one's later years...read more

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9781884540356 | Haleys, November 1, 1998, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: With candor and insight, the author analyzes firsthand decriptions of the experience of aging discovered in selected writings, personal interviews, and her work as counselor and companion to individuals over eighty.

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Product Description: A medium in which Dawson's Creek is displacing the "aging" Beverly Hills 90210 and Melrose Place has little room for older Americans. Mass communications professor Riggs studies the other side of the television screen: "creative ways in which older Americans are using television today...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780813525396 | Rutgers Univ Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $59.00 | About this edition: A medium in which Dawson's Creek is displacing the "aging" Beverly Hills 90210 and Melrose Place has little room for older Americans.

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9780813525402 | Rutgers Univ Pr, August 1, 1998, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: In Mature Audiences, Karen Riggs challenges traditional ideas about older viewers as passive, vulnerable audiences for television.

Essays cover aging, finances, risk-taking, loss, friendship, marriage, work, health, retirement, holidays, and grandparenting

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9781557042514 | Newmarket Pr, April 1, 1997, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Essays cover aging, finances, risk-taking, loss, friendship, marriage, work, health, retirement, holidays, and grandparenting

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Product Description: Book by Powers, William F.

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9781887750141 | Netsource Dist Services, July 1, 1996, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Book by Powers, William F.

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Product Description: The Joy of Old presents a new vision of positive aging based on continued development in elderhood, during which successful elders blossom into human fullness with integrity and spirit. This guide for elders and mature boomers suggests we protire (rather than retire), shows how values change with age and why joy in age seems countercultural today...read more

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9781886851443 | Geode Pr, July 1, 1995, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The Joy of Old presents a new vision of positive aging based on continued development in elderhood, during which successful elders blossom into human fullness with integrity and spirit.

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Product Description: An easy to use, straightforward guide for helping older people cope with problems associated with transitions, trauma, and stress. An optimistic work designed to make counseling the elderly easier, more successful, and more rewarding...read more

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9780936609317 | Q E D Pr, May 1, 1995, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: An easy to use, straightforward guide for helping older people cope with problems associated with transitions, trauma, and stress.

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9780936609287 | Q E D Pr, May 1, 1995, cover price $19.50 | About this edition: An easy to use, straightforward guide for helping older people cope with problems associated with transitions, trauma, and stress.

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The author gathers stories of single women over fifty-five that show them living productive, independent lives, documents the many types of discrimination faced by older women, and offers advice to make daily living easier. Tour.

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9780395652343 | Houghton Mifflin, May 1, 1995, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Gathers stories of single women over fifty-five living productive, independent lives, and documents the types of discrimination faced by older women

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Product Description: Helps you recognise the continuity that runs across the generations from grandparents to grandchildren. This work provides a clear perspective on the actual experiences of the lives of our family and friends.
By Jon Hendricks (editor)

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9780895031662 | Baywood Pub Co, January 1, 1995, cover price $56.95 | About this edition: Helps you recognise the continuity that runs across the generations from grandparents to grandchildren.

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Discusses the advantages of being fifty, describes how people of that age can change their outlook towards life and aging, and discusses the philosophy of aging

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9781879904132 | Halo Books, January 1, 1995, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Discusses the advantages of being fifty, describes how people of that age can change their outlook towards life and aging, and discusses the philosophy of aging

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Product Description: Book by Fried, Stephen, Van Booven, Dorothy, Macquarrie, Cindy

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9781878812100 | Health Professions Pr, February 1, 1993, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Book by Fried, Stephen, Van Booven, Dorothy, Macquarrie, Cindy

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Offers encouragement to the elderly, exploring the potential within and opportunities available to healthy senior citizens

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9780664251888 | Westminster John Knox Pr, April 1, 1991, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Offers encouragement to the elderly, exploring the potential within and opportunities available to healthy senior citizens

Product Description: Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan. Jossey-Bass Social and Behavioral Science Series. Counseling psychology.

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9781555422868 | 1 edition (Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, November 1, 1990), cover price $47.00 | About this edition: Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan.

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9780608251844 | Proquest Info & Learning, November 1, 1990, cover price $81.30 | About this edition: Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan.

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