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Regular exercise can reduce a person's biological age by 10 to 20 years, and the key to exercising effectively is maintaining and increasing strength. A higher level of strength also improves immune systems, helps prevent age-related diseases such as diabetes and osteoporosis, lowers stress, and increases mental acuity. Written by a master athlete over 50, this accessible book offers specific exercises for improving health and fitness, tips on maintaining...
3) Everyman
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English
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Philip Roth's new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The best-selling author of The Plot Against America now turns his attention from to one man's lifelong skirmish with mortality.
The fate of Roth's everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through the family trials and professional achievements of his vigorous adulthood, and into...
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DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First American edition.
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186 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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A streamlined functional training program specifically for the baby boomer generation. Future-proof your body and restore strength and balance to your everyday movement with 62 functional exercises, targeted workout routines, and three four-week fitness programs.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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In a Southern nursing home, an 80-year-old man reads from his diary to his wife, suffering from Alzheimer's. It's the story of their teenage romance, followed by years of separation because he was from the wrong class, followed by her decision, on his return from World War II, to be her own woman and marry him.
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and... no qualms about a little murder. This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss investigations, features two-never-before translated stories that will keep you laughing all the way to the retirement home. Ever since her darling father's untimely death when she was only eighteen, Maud has lived in the family's spacious apartment in...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 120 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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This program will help your staff to understand the importance of good nutrition and a balanced diet and how these two important aspects of care can affect overall health.
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"[P]hysician and [...] author Louise Aronson's Elderhood is a [...] look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life. For more than 5,000 years, "old" has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans are living longer than ever before, we've made old age into a disease,...
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English
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In the third hilarious, unforgettable installment in internationally bestselling author Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg's League of Pensioners series, Martha and the League's latest escapade has them headed for the French Riviera in what is sure to be the most daring caper of the summer. Martha and her friends are sitting comfortably in Sweden ... a little too comfortably. Determined to do more for their fellow pensioners--and jazz things up for themselves--they're...
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"Fully updated for today's circumstances and needs, this is a must-have, proven guide for adult children, long distant caregivers, partners, and single elders who are struggling with long term care management needs and often find themselves overwhelmed by the many facets of caregiving and care planning." -Provided by Publisher
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 69 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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In this program you will learn how to work with your patients to encourage proper dental health. We will disucss the harmful effects of plaque and provide you with practical solutions to help your patients take part in their own mouth care. Learn how to assist them with good oral health habits that will keep your patients smiling for years to come.
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, 131 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
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English
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The Elder Project follows seven diverse seniors over two years and records their experiences through a series of short and candid episodic stories. As they face the possibility of increasing frailty and transitioning into more dependent-living scenarios, the elders talk of their concerns and eloquently express their desire to grow older with dignity and some control over their future.
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Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
2022.
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xix, 252 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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The 60-Something Crisis: How to Live an Extraordinary Life in Retirement is the first book to circumvent the tired and conventional approaches of finding purpose, passion, or happiness, or using reinvention to discover a path of fulfillment after 60. It presents a clear, practical framework through four portals—geography of place, yield, kinship, and freedom—to navigate and support future well-being and happiness. Readers will learn how to pursue...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 117 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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As seen on PBS, And Thou Shalt Honor is the complete two-hour original broadcast, including all of the profiles and interviews. The groundbreaking PBS special And Thou Shalt Honor brings to light the challenges facing today's caregivers. The struggles and rewards of caregiving are given equal treatment in this incisive and thoughtful series. Sensitively hosted by Joe Mantegna, the purpose of the program is to promote awareness of the issue, promote...
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English
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Where to Retire offers the best advice not only on where to relocate in the retirement years, but why people should pick up and move just as life is settling down. Retirement guru John Howells provides well-researched and completely revised and updated information on how to find the ideal home base for the retirement years. To help the decision-making process, the author offers a list of items to consider when selecting the ideal community: safety;...
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Harcourt Children's Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
410L
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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Mr. Putter and his cat Tabby take time off from napping to play on the Yankee Doodle Dandies baseball team.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
470L
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English
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To relieve the boredom of a long, hot summer, Mr. Putter and his cat Tabby join their fun-loving neighbor, Mrs. Teaberry, and her mischievous dog Zeke on an adventurous sightseeing boat cruise.
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 30 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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While adolescence is the time we form identity and establish independence, the adult years are marked by important life events, and an expansion of the self. Gerontologist James Birren and his guided autobiography participants are the case study for this lesson, demonstrating that social and cognitive development does not end in the elder years. As author David Myers says, "From womb to tomb, we are always in the process of becoming."
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 50 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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This program will give the nursing assistant the necessary information to increase and maintain mobility through client/resident incentives and the use of many assistive devices. Learn correct transfer techniques and elements of good body mechanics. An Appropriate for ALL healthcare environments.
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