In 1900, only four percent of the American population was sixty-five or older. By 2000, this number had more than tripled, and it is expected to nearly double again over the next fifty years. It is estimated that by the year 2050, more than one person out of five will be in the “senior” category.
Although today’s elderly are living longer lives, sometimes this seeming fortune comes at a price which includes severe infirmities and diminished capacity. For adult children or others who may then have to step in and care for them in their twilight years, The Baby Boomer’s Guide to Caring for Your Aging Parent will be a companion on one of life’s most difficult but potentially rewarding journeys. This guide includes everything from practical information on the problems of dealing with the elderly to heartfelt advice on the importance of honest communication.
With expert insight and the empathy that only comes from experience, Gene and David Williams and Patie Kay guide families through this new caregiving terrain. The Baby Boomer’s Guide to Caring for Your Aging Parent is a must-have for anyone who is now or may soon be caring for an elderly loved one.
Examine the questions of “how,” “what,” and “why” associated with religiousness and spirituality in the lives of older adults!
A completely revised edition of this guidebook for adult children who care for aging parents, with new information on nursing homes and an updated resource section.
Aging in Place: Designing, Adapting, and Enhancing the Home Environment gives you a complete examination of current trends in adaptive home designs for older adults. As an occupational therapist, designer, architect, planner, social worker, community organizer, or gerontologist, you will explore innovative home designs and studies for creating environments that offer optimal living for aging adults. Complete with diagrams, floor plans, and tables, Aging in Place helps you to improve the quality of life for the elderly by offering them these state of the art designs that provide independence and dignity. 
“Well Aged” is more than just a cookbook. It is a resource guide for anyone caring for an elderly or disabled person. All recipes are designed to be easy-to-prepare, easy-to- handle and easy-to-chew. Extra calories and vitamins are packed into each of the over 200 recipes. If you have an elderly person in your life, or if you work as a caregiver, this is the book for you.
The “Me” days of the Baby Boomers are long gone, and in it’s place we are finding ourselves rapidly loosing the free, happy life style that we have worked so hard to obtain. No longer can we look towards our Golden Years with freedom of responsibility and retirement to a far away island. We are slowly being squeezed between the problems of the past and future generations. Why are the Baby Boomers becoming known as the “Sandwich Generation”? How do we handle this? What does the future hold? Find the answers in this new book on the subject.
A practical, compassionate, and beautifully written book on how to provide appropriate care for our aging parents without stressing out or ruining our lives. An updated and revised paperback edition, with a new introduction and new references.
A sublime and moving collection of essays by an eloquent master writer, Autumn Rhythm is equal parts candor, courage, humor, and desperation. A true-tongued, almost joyous gallows humor permeates the book, a meditation on what it’s like to be on the outer edge of “boomerhood,” on the cusp of official seniority; what it’s like to have been so long associated with a youth movement-rock music-yet to no longer be young. Autumn Rhythm comes from a man whose work has always been music as much as it’s been about it, and who now brings his syncopation of word, sound, and sense to the subject of life itself, as lived and lost: a frank, brilliant, and ultimately poetic contemplation of physical decline, the deaths of friends and family, and the confounding, ever-accelerating changes in our culture.
The phenomenon of age-related cognitive decline has long been controversial, both in terms of mere existence, and with respect to how it is explained. Some researchers have dismissed it as an artifact of declining health or lower levels of education, and others have attributed it to general changes occurring in the external environment. Still other interpretations have been based on the use it or lose it principle — known as the Disuse Hypothesis — or on the idea that there are qualitative differences in either the structure or the process of cognition across the adult years. Perhaps the most popular approach at present relies on the information-processing perspective and attempts to identify the critical processing component most responsible for age-related differences in cognition. 
