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

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.

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.

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.

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

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. It can be difficult to diagnose and treat, and it poses ethical questions that cannot be answered simply. Yet it is so common and so destructive that anyone who works with geriatric patients must come to terms with it. Everyone is familiar with the image of the wild-haired elderly recluse hoarding junk in a dilapidated house, but to their neighbors, friends, and family--as well as to the health care professionals, social workers, and clergy who deal with them--these recluses are a special burden. They often refuse care despite such obvious problems as open sores. They tend to be intelligent and independent. Do they have the right to choose to live in squalor, or are their choices dictated by depression or other diseases? Do health care professionals have a responsibility to treat them against their will or a duty to respect their stated preferences?Self-Neglect examines the topics of passive suicide and indirect life-threatening behavior to help medical practitioners working with the elderly understand why patients do not follow doctor's orders or take care of themselves. Through case studies, this informative book explores the ways in which patients practice self-neglect by ignoring their doctors’advice, extreme lack of self-care, refusal to eat, failure to take their prescribed medication, and alcohol abuse. Self-Neglect offers insight into many facets of this condition, including:choosing among the many definitions of self-neglect what kinds of people become self-neglecting managing self-neglecting patients when and how to intervene the patient's autonomy and personal rights versus the rights of the community self-neglect as a way to gain control of a negative life situation when other tactics have failedDiscussing the sometimes tragic outcome of misdiagnosing self-neglect or leaving it untreated, this intelligent book will help you identify and understand this dangerous behavior and offer your patients better care for this condition.

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

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

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

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

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

Product Description: Book by Powers, William F.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.