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MEternally Favorite Things Memory Kits
Through reminiscence, we find comfort in our favorite things and form connections with people and the past. Favorite Things DVDs were created for the enjoyment of those with dementia, their caregivers, and family in order to provide comfort and inspire connections and conversation through reminiscence. Can be used for individual or group reminiscence. Check out the list of available kits here.
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In Ripening Time: Inside Stories for Aging with Grace, Sherry Ruth Anderson presents a new perspective on aging. In her latest book, the bestselling author of The Feminine Face of God and The Cultural Creatives invites the reader to engage the aging process through the art of inner inquiry. She guides us beyond our culture's mind traps through stories where elders face into the lies, the losses and endings, the tender and bittersweet and ferocious...
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"The Vintage Years: Finding Your Inner Artist (Writer, Musician, Visual Artist) After Sixty," takes a positive look at the post 55 phase of life, according to author Francine Toder, Ph.D. Her research into the factors that increase brain, body and psychological fitness, shows that our lives can be supercharged through the fine arts. Recent discoveries in neuroscience confirm that the brain even beyond age sixty, if it's fed a diet of complexity, newness...
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Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better. She describes how we over-prepare and worry way too much about what is inevitable. One by one, Ehrenreich topples the shibboleths that guide our attempts to live a long, healthy life, from the importance of preventive medical screenings to the concepts of wellness and mindfulness, from dietary fads to fitness culture. We tend to believe we have agency over our bodies,...
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2019.
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English
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"As women grow older, they contend with ageism, misogyny, and loss. Yet as Mary Pipher shows, most older women are deeply happy and filled with gratitude for the gifts of life. Their struggles help them grow into the authentic, empathetic, and wise people they have always wanted to be. In Women Rowing North, Pipher offers a timely examination of the cultural and developmental issues women face as they age. Drawing on her own experience as daughter,...
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Twelve
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Part family memoir, part Studs Terkel, How To Live considers some unusual sources--deathbed confessions, late-in-life journals--as well as offering a rich compilation of interviews with the over-70 set to deliver a highly optimistic look at our dying days.
14) Advanced style
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Bond/360
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[2014]
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English
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"Acclaimed street style photographer Ari Seth Cohen and director Lina Plioplyte dive into the personal lives of New York City's most fashionable seniors. In an industry obsessed with youth, these older women dispel conventional ideas about beauty and aging and prove that with age comes grace, confidence, and new, unimagined opportunities for fame and fortune."--Container.
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