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Contrary to popular belief, it is very possible for people with dementia to live a high-quality life… with the help of their loved ones. Remember, they are still the same person – your parent or sibling or any family member – who values relationships, finds excitement in social interactions, and desires positive feelings that can last even after their memory fades.

This helpful and encouraging resource offers support for everyone accompanying someone at the end of life - from the moment we first learn that someone is dying through the time of death and beyond. Kirsten DeLeo shares down-to-earth advice and offers simple practices to help us handle our emotions, deal with difficult relationships, talk about what matters, listen fully, practice self-care, and work through challenging situations with presence and grace.

Contrary to popular belief, retirement homes are not the only option for our population’s aging members anymore. Adult Family Homes designed to allow senior citizens to live mostly independently with access to a variety of amenities, provide an alternative for individuals or couples who can no longer safely live on their own but don’t want to relegate themselves to assisted living facilities.  Investment in this innovative category of senior living is a relatively new opportunity that many are not aware of.

Until John Wilson met the warm, wise woman who became his fourth wife, the object of his most intense devotion had always been the work of William Shakespeare. From his feat of memorizing Romeo and Juliet and half a dozen other plays as a student to his evangelical zeal as a professor, John's faith in the Bard has shaped his life. But now his mental powers have been diminished by dementia, and his wife has reluctantly moved him to a residential care facility.

Part Lovely Bones, part Dogs of Babel, a series of letters tell Angel's story in her own words. Now deceased, the irrepressible golden retriever had been rescued from a shelter at an advanced age and given a second lease on life by author Martin Levin and his caretaker, Paula Drost. Angel's letters about her life and adventures with Levin and Drost evidence their unconditional love for her and impart precious lessons about life she was able to learn along the way because of their intervention.

A comprehensive, compassionate guide for navigating end-of-life financial decisions for an aging parent or other loved one—from an award-winning journalist who is also a Certified Financial Planner Have you just gotten the dreaded phone call—a parent or loved one has taken a turn for the...

Este libro es una invitación poderosa a soltar sin miedo, sin resentimientos y sin cargas innecesarias. La relación con mamá ya que la misma, define muchas de nuestras emociones, decisiones y relaciones. Si alguna vez te has sentido culpable por querer alejarte, por querer ser diferente, por no cumplir sus expectativas, o porque te frustra parecerte tanto a ella cuando No quieres más de lo mismo, este libro es para ti. No tienes que seguir cargando con el peso del pasado.

Overcome frustrating memory slips and protect your cognitive longevity with science-backed habits for healthy aging. Whether you are actively worrying about mental decline or simply navigating the daily reality of forgotten names, this reassuring guide replaces anxiety with empowering clarity...

Your home should give you energy, not quietly drain it. Have you ever opened a closet, stared at inherited photos, or walked past a cluttered room and felt your body tighten? The problem isn't laziness, age, or a lack of willpower. Often, it's Visual Static: the emotional and mental noise...

Ever wondered what online dating is really like after 50? Spoiler: It’s not all swiping left on awkward selfies and swiping right on people who list "travel" as their only hobby. In Flirting with Fate: A Dating Odyssey, you'll join one man’s hilarious, sometimes painful, but ultimately enlightening journey into the world of digital romance.

Most people don’t know how to have a “good death”—but Jane Callahan does. By day, Jane is a corporate marketer and mom, but by nights and weekends, she works with the almost-dead. As an end-of-life doula, she helps the terminally ill prepare for their imminent demise. And it has revealed invaluable truths about this temporary status called life.

Do you want a secure retirement, free from worry, stress, and confusion? The Bucket Plan® is a must-hear book for anyone serious about creating a practical and sensible financial plan for his or her retirement years. The financial planning process outlined in this book is based on a three-bucket philosophy of strategically positioning assets to plan for and mitigate the risks and dangers that can occur in retirement.

Everyone wants to feel fitter, sexier, more energetic, more productive, and younger - but what if the solutions were already here? What if there were already ways to ease the negative effects of aging and prevent diabetes, heart disease, cancer, Parkinson’s disease, and Alzheimer’s disease from ever starting? What if we could translate all the exotic science and research breakthroughs of today into a practical plan that could help us win the war on aging? Here’s the truth: We can. The Fountain is a sensible, comprehensive, and scientifically based anti-aging guide packed with essential information.

Discover how to thrive and live better for longer. By the time we turn 60 most of us will still have one third of our lives to live. How well we live these years will depend on our health: are we agile and disease free? Or dependent on medication and physical assistance? In Staying Alive you'll...

This is the moving reference you've been waiting for! Downsizing the Silver Tsunami is the compilation of years of working with thousands of clients and helping them resolve the moving problems and logistical and vendor questions that come up for us every day. We have put together a comprehensive reference tool that you can refer to over and over to help you navigate the difficult pathways of estate sales, consignment dealers, picking the right real estate agent, why a trust or will are important and so many other moving and downsizing questions.

Retirement has changed, and Robin Ryan, America's most trusted career coach, is here to guide you through your retirement reinvention. In RETIREMENT REINVENTION, America's most trusted career coach shatters the myths that retirement is the end of work, that it is a time of decline, that new...

Marc Freedman, hailed by the New York Times as “the voice of aging baby boomers [seeking] meaningful and sustaining work later in life”, makes an impassioned call to accept the decades opening up between midlife and anything approximating old age for what they really are: an entirely new stage of life, which he dubs the encore years. The whole 60- to 80-year-old period is simply new territory, he writes, and the people in this period constitute a whole new phenomenon in the 21st century.

Most families treat a reverse mortgage as a last resort. Used properly, it is one of the most powerful financial tools your parents own.Somebody in your family has raised the idea, which makes it your decision as much as theirs. And you are being asked what you think before anyone has told you...

Your parent is still alive.So why does it feel like you are already grieving?Maybe they still know your name, but they no longer feel like the parent you knew.Maybe a conversation that once came naturally now feels impossible.Maybe you leave a visit exhausted, angry, guilty, relieved, or...

Intentional retirement design is a learnable and exciting skill to embrace. Based on Anja Sassenberg-DeGeorgia’s years of speaking and assisting hundreds of people around the world to dream big and live life to the fullest, On the Edge of Something Bigger shares her valuable insights and knowledge as a certified life coach and presenter to help people just like you, individuals looking for something bigger: a life filled with hope and possibility.