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INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The roadmap for finding purpose, meaning, and success as we age, from bestselling author, Harvard professor, and the Atlantic's happiness columnist Arthur Brooks. Many of us assume that the more successful we are, the less susceptible we become to the sense...

Grow Healthier as You Grow Older is a personal look at the history of the fitness revolution, a guide for preventive health and fitness to improve the quality and quantity of your life, and an inspirational account of Dr. Kenneth Cooper’s lifelong dedication to the mission of serving others. These days, workouts come in a wide variety, from hot yoga to HIIT (high intensity interval training) classes, pickleball to hip-hop dance. Exercise can be used in three ways: for rest and relaxation, for muscle-building and figure-contouring, and for cardiorespiratory fitness.

My Father Is My Little Boy is a heartfelt journal of the author’s experiences with her father during his last years with advanced Alzheimer’s disease. Recording visits with Papi, the author documents the events of the day… in real time. Since the author is Nuyorican (New York City born and raised Puerto Rican), these meaningful memories are spoken and shared in a bilingual and bicultural style (always with English translation) to culminate in a powerful book that invites listeners into a tender, sometimes funny, sometimes difficult but honest account of caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s.

In Too Seasoned to Care, Kenneth Braswell invites listeners into a deeply reflective journey about embracing life's seasoned years with purpose, clarity, and unapologetic authenticity. Through personal narratives, profound wisdom, and heartfelt storytelling, Braswell explores the freedom that comes from shedding societal expectations, redefining success on one's own terms, and living with intention. This book is a testament to the beauty and liberation found in acknowledging one's seasoned truths and boldly sharing them with the world.

Following her mother’s death, Dr Helena Popovic puts her medical training and beliefs to the test when she becomes the carer for her elderly father, who has encroaching dementia. A passionate medical practitioner and international speaker, Helena finds herself living out everything she preached.

After fighting through the medical system and depleting her parents' life savings and much of her own, Marcell solved her eldercare nightmare medically, behaviorally, legally, financially, and emotionally-and shows you how you can too. Elder Rage answers difficult questions such as how to get obstinate elders to: discuss long-term care options, accept cleaning and caregiving help, see different doctors, and and teaches you how to manage stressand grief.

As we age, our roles as fathers change. Like all relationships, fatherhood is not a static experience, nor is it easily described, and at times the path is unclear and confusing. How do we relate to daughters and sons as they mature? As teenagers? As adults? As caretakers and heads of their own families? How does one best find joy in their accomplishments and our hand in them? And how do we come to terms with their failures, which can so often feel like our own?