How come I can never find my keys? Why don't I sleep as well as I used to? Why do my friends keep repeating the same stories? What can I do to keep my brain sharp? Scientists know. Brain Rules for Aging Well, by developmental molecular biologist Dr. John Medina, gives you the facts, and the prescription to age well, in his signature engaging style. With so many discoveries over the years, science is literally changing our minds about the optimal care...

"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...

The first book to open up a real conversation about aging. What has the experience of getting older felt like for you? It seems that life's milestones pass by in a flash: graduating from school, landing your first job, getting married, having kids. Most people look forward to these events and have some expectations about what each life milestone will be like. But what about when you get older? How can you continue to live fully in your sixties, seventies,...

A compilation for short essays, musings, and reflections written by experts and celebrities from all walks of life, this book comprises a veritable instructions manual for how to turn 50.