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Old Seems to Be Other People by Lily Brett
$30.00 NZD
Category: Ageing Well
'People assume that if you are female and over seventy you are oblivious to men's good looks. No one would blink if a 99-year-old man wearing an oxygen mask mentioned a good-looking woman...' Most of us would like to live to an old age, but few of us actually want to be old. In this disarming and gentl ...Show more
Women Rowing North - Navigating Life's Currents and Flourishing As We Age by Mary Pipher
$25.00 NZD
Category: Ageing Well
New York Times Bestseller *USA Today Bestseller *Los Angeles Times Bestseller *Publishers WeeklyBestseller The instantNew York Times bestseller from the author ofReviving Ophelia--a guide to wisdom, authenticity, and bliss for women as they age--now with a new foreword by the author. Women growing old ...Show more
The Memory Activity Book by Dk
$40.00 NZD
Category: Growing Older
Combat and manage the symptoms of dementia and Alzheimer's disease, from memory loss to disorientation with this practical activity book. From physical activities to crafts and puzzles, The Memory Activity Bookprovides those with memory loss and their carers with ideas, tools and guidance. There are tw ...Show more
Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old by Andrew Steele
$33.00 NZD
Category: Ageing Well
Ageing is the biggest cause of disease in our society. Cancer, heart disease, dementia, flu: the risk of all increase staggeringly rapidly as we near the end of life. What if we could slow down the process - or even stop it? Ageless introduces us to the cutting-edge research that is paving the way for a ...Show more
Avoiding the Ageing Parent Trap: Essential Information & Solutions by Brian Herd
$35.00 NZD
Category: Ageing Well
Informative and insightful, this is the essential family guide to preparing for ageing parents. This is a book that forces us to confront what most of us avoid - planning for our ageing parents. Our natural inclination is to wait and see what might happen. But when it does happen, or starts to unfold, w ...Show more
Book About Getting Older by POLLOCK LUCY
$40.00 NZD
Category: Ageing Well
'The most important book about the second half of your life you'll ever read. I wish everyone in the UK could be under Dr Lucy's care, but this is the next best thing' SANDI TOKSVIG 'This warm and compassionate book gets to the heart of older age. Using stories and accessible explanations, it covers is ...Show more
Depression and Anxiety in Later Life: What Everyone Needs to Know by Mark D. Miller
$45.00 NZD
Category: Growing Older | Series: A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book
Physical problems and emotional stresses, such as bereavement, health conditions, pain, concerns about the future, side effects of medications, and the accumulated effects of lifestyle choices, may lead to depression or anxiety in older people. However, as Drs. Mark D. Miller and Charles F. Reynolds III ...Show more
Life is for Living by John Shackleton
$25.00 NZD
Category: Growing Older
John Shackleton challenges anyone to live to 100, and to get there happily, healthy and full of zest to last another 100 years. Part autobiography, this top athlete discovered he was faster at the age of 50 than he had been years earlier during international championship swimming meets and trials fo ...Show more
The Aging Mind: An owner's manual by Patrick Rabbitt
$60.00 NZD
Category: Ageing Well
No-one approaches aging with enthusiasm. Activities we accomplish easily in our 20s and 30s become more difficult as we grow old but, though change is inevitable, recognising and understanding precisely what is happening to our bodies and minds allows us to continue to manage and enjoy our lives. Patri ...Show more
Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom by Mary Catherine Bateson
$57.00 NZD
Category: Ageing Well
From the author of Composing a Life (first published in 1991 and still in print), an inspiring exploration of a new stage of the life cycle, "Adulthood II," created by unprecedented levels of health, energy, time, and resources--of which we have barely begun to be fully conscious. Mary Catherine Bateson ...Show more
The Invisible Woman: Taking on the Vintage Years by Helen Walmsley-Johnson
$25.00 NZD
Category: Ageing Well
Sixty is the new forty, we're constantly told. Or is it that seventy is the new fifty? Either way, there's nothing middle-of-the-road about middle age. From coping with bodies that are 'heading south' to rampant ageism in the workplace, this time in our lives, in the words of Bette Davies, 'is no place ...Show more
A Walk on the Beach: Tales of Wisdom from an Unconventional Woman by Joan Anderson
$33.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Shortly after arriving on Cape Cod to spend a year by herself, Joan Anderson's chance encounter with a wise, playful, and astonishing woman helped her usher in the transformations and self-discoveries that led to her ongoing renewal. First glimpsed as a slender figure on a fogged-in beach, Joan Erikson ...Show more
