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In a narrative that combines the intensely personal with social, economic, and historical analysis, Jacoby turns an unsparing eye on the marketers of longevity--pharmaceutical companies, lifestyle gurus, and scientific businessmen who suggest that there will soon be a "cure" for the "disease" of aging.
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"Stop making a living and start making a life with The New Retirementality. When Mitch Anthony first presented the concept of a new way of thinking about retirement in 2000, it was novel and many critics didn't buy into it. Originally written to get the attention of baby boomers who were approaching 55, Mitch started a revolution by showing people why they needed to have a new attitude about retirement-a "new retirementality." More than a decade later,...
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Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has spent a lifetime observing the natural world, chronicling the customs of pre-contact hunter-gatherers and the secret lives of deer and dogs. In this book, the capstone of her long career, Thomas, now eighty-eight, turns her keen eye to her own life. The result is an account of growing old that is at once funny and charming and intimate and profound, both a memoir and a life-affirming map all of us may follow to embrace...
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Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"This book explores how age shaped slavery as an institution and how the aging process affected the enslaved and enslaver alike. It challenges static models of enslaved resistance and enslaver dominance by emphasizing intergenerational conflict in the American South. Key reading for students and scholars of slavery in the US"--
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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A sharp examination of the troubled state of retirement in America shares sobering insights into how the real estate crash and limited social security are preventing retirement and inducing widespread poverty in aging Baby Boomers.
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Hudson Street Press
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[2011]
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English
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More than one thousand extraordinary Americans share their stories and the wisdom they have gained on living, loving, and finding happiness. Pillemer interviewed people over the age of sixty-five to seek their counsel on all the big issues-- children, marriage, money, career, aging-- and found that he consistently heard advice that pointed to these thirty lessons for living.
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Libraries Unlimited, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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This book, which focuses on adult patrons ages nineteen through senior citizens, explains how libraries can best serve their community's population at different life stages and foster experiences that are "worth the trip"--whether actual or virtual.
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The authors explore the new retirement as people live longer lives, including work, leisure, health, family, home, finances, and purpose. "The world is witnessing a powerful new version of retirement, driven by the power and needs of the Baby Boomer generation. Consumers over age 50 account for more than half of all spending and control more than 70% of our total net worth -- yet are largely ignored by youth-focused marketers. How will work, family,...
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Simon & Schuster
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©2014.
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English
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"A new life phase is beginning to emerge within our society. When the Baby Boom generation came of age in the 1960s and 1970s, they jump-started a cultural revolution that shaped today's society. Now, many feel they are living a life of frenzied disharmony. This out-of-balance feeling is a signal that you are ready for your second coming of age, your life beyond adulthood. [This book] illuminates how to recognize and navigate the most challenging...
16) Homebodies
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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'A murder a day keeps the landlord away! When six mild-mannered senior citizens are told that their old brownstone is going to be torn down, they don't take the news lightly! Led by a pixie-faced lady, the oldsters decide they must exert 'Gray Power' and take action. After a little plotting and planning, they become an oddly lovable assortment of 'hit men, ' carefully getting rid of those who would attempt to disrupt their lives. This hilarious horror...
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A.A. Knopf
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1994
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English
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"There is a vast literature on death and dying, but there are few reliable accounts of the ways in which we die. The intimate account of how various diseases take away life, offered in How We Die, is not meant to prompt horror or terror but to demythologize the process of dying to help us rid ourselves of that fear of the terra incognita." "Though the avenues of death - AIDS, cancer, heart attack, Alzheimer's, accident, and stroke - are common, each...
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University of Pennsylvania Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"In Black Elders, Frederick C. Knight explores the experiences of African Americans with aging and in old age during the eras of slavery and emancipation. Though slavery put a premium on young labor, elders worked as caregivers, domestics, cooks, or midwives and performed other tasks in the margins of Southern and Northern economies. Looking at black families, churches, mutual aid societies, and homes for the aged, Knight demonstrates the pivotal...
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University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"After twenty, thirty, or even forty years of marriage, countless vacations together, raising well-adjusted children, and sharing property and finances--what could go wrong? Gray Divorce offers a provocative look at the growing rate of marital splits after the age of 50, showcasing the voices of men and women who are considering, going through, or have undergone a divorce. With empathy and insight, Jocelyn Crowley, who has written widely on family...
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