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Leave it to the graceful Marie Ponsot, now in her late eighties, to view her life in poetry as easeful. As she tells us, pondering what stones can ... More

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A "delightful" ("Poetry), " celebratory volume of late-life poems from the award-winning octogenarian Marie Ponsot.

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Verses that capture the sweetness and poignancy of age

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A laugh-out-loud celebration of the inevitable fate that awaits everyone, this work collects hundreds of hilarious and heartwarming examples of ... More

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Depression affects between 10-15% of older people, making it the most frequently encountered mental health condition in later life. Despite this, the ... More

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An aging, wicked-tongued actress finds new life through the friendship of a young man employed in the retirement home where she resides. He helps her ... More

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The wise fool, the sensible madman, and the village idiot, traditional characters in European literature, are best-known through Don Quixote. Benito ... More

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No matter what they say, sixty will never be the new forty. But sixty-five-year-old author Virginia Ironside is determined to convince people that ... More

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Silver Prize winner, 19th Annual Mature Media Awards, National Media (Book) division.Defining the differences between run-of-the-mill old farts and ... More

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Looks at the lives of the elderly, mainly through their own words, to draw meaning from this aspect of the human condition.

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Seven contributors examine how the best thinkers and artists of each historical epoch in the West have treated old age. Full of surprising and ... More

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"Frangipani House" is the story of Mama King, trapped by age and infirmity, but ultimately indomitable. She becomes too much for her family who send ... More

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Clendinen has written a deeply moving, often hilarious look at how the oldest Americans are coping with the reality of living longer.

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In an attempt to understand the meaning of ageing and the treatment of the aged in different cultures, seven anthropologists have made studies of 10 ... More

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A Journey Called Aging presents an insightful exploration of the years between the entry into older adulthood and death. This text examines the ... More

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Here Bernadette offers sage and humorous advice to all who feel the pinch of old age and all the aches, pains, and problems that come with it. She ... More

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For more than a decade, "The Graying of America" has helped thousands of senior citizens find their way through the thickets and thorns of growing ... More

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The Leisure Seeker is the story of John and Ella Robina, a couple married 50+ years - she has stopped her cancer treatments, he has Alzheimer's - who ... More

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