Aging
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An investigation into why the health care system does not work for old people, who are in fragile health, and what we can do about it.
Medical treatment of elderly people is not working. Worse, it is often harmful, says author John Sloan, a family physician who has worked primarily with the elderly for more than twenty years. In A Bitter Pill, he e …
Dr. Art Hister's Guide to Living a Long and Healthy Life
Popular physician and personality Art Hister's practical, humorous guide to reaching a ripe old age in the best of health.
Dr. Art Hister is well known for his authoritative, common- sense, and very funny books about how to stay healthy. Following on the heels of the highly successful Midlife Man, this book presents Hister's advice for avoiding dise …
Live Longer, Look Younger
We can’t avoid getting old—but we can certainly slow down the ageing process.
Average lifespans are increasing: these days fifty is the new forty, and it’s estimated that within three decades life expectancy may be as long as 150 years. But we don’t just want to live longer—we want to maintain our youthful vigour and health, too. In Live L …
Living Will, Living Well
Using the voices of ordinary people, clinical ethicist and nurse Dianne Godkin explores the end-of-life issues and emotions that arise when an individual sets out to prepare an advance directive (living will). Conversations with study participants, and the composite character of Alice, are forthright, practical, and uplifting. Written for individua …
Old and Smart
Betty Nickerson, writer, sociologist, curator and TV producer - now in her mid-seventies - knows that when it comes to aging, you just can't believe anyone under 60.
She has spent decades talking to ageful women at bus stops, checkout counters, doctor's offices, rallies, meetings and funerals. And she knows that her Age Mates are not little old ladi …
"This book contains observations and suggestions on how we as individuals can be healthy, wealthy and wise. It also talks about some of the innovations we can put together out of our experience that will enable us to assume our responsibility now, and claim the rightful place of older women in creating the harmony the human family requires. We have the power to link our present needs to an ancient way - to find a flow which is meaningful but has gone underground to survive. Older women may be the natural dowsers to recover the river."
Old Is In
Is impotence contagious? At what age should a senior be surgically separated from his automobile, or obligated to donate his sex toys to the Salvation Army?
These and other timely questions are among those not answered in Eric Nicol's latest cure for serious reading, Old Is In. This palsied opus responds to demographics warning that our Western soci …
