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Author : Ee Heok Kua
Publisher : Armour Publishing Pte Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9789814138864
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (388 download)
Download or read book Dignity & Grace of Ageing written by Ee Heok Kua and published by Armour Publishing Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2007 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tim Challies
Publisher : Cruciform Quick
ISBN 13 : 9781941114421
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Aging Gracefully written by Tim Challies and published by Cruciform Quick. This book was released on 2018-06 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greater age brings greater sorrow but also greater joy, especially to those who are in Christ. As we grow older, the Bible instructs us to age gracefully, wisely, and resolutely to the glory of God. To do this we must age in Christ and for Christ. What does that look like? What can we be doing now to ensure we finish this race strong?
Author : Kathleen Dowling Singh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1614291500
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book The Grace in Aging written by Kathleen Dowling Singh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to use your later years for awakening and spiritual growth. Encouraging, inspiring, and practical, The Grace in Aging invites all those who have ever experienced spiritual longing to awaken in their twilight years. Since aging, in and of itself, does not lead to spiritual maturity, The Grace in Aging suggests and explores causes and conditions that we can create in our lives, just as we are living them, to allow awakening to unfold -- transforming the predictable sufferings of aging into profound opportunities for growth in clarity, love, compassion, and peace. Kathleen Dowling Singh streamlines vast and complex teachings into skillful means and wise views. Straightforward language and piercing questions bring Singh's teachings into the sharp focus of our own lives; the contemplative nature of each chapter allows for an uncommon depth of inquiry. Examples from our lives and from the chatter in our own minds touch the reader personally, offering the chance to absorb the implications deeply and do the work of freeing his or her own mind. Ecumenical in spirit, tone, and language, Singh offers wisdom from teachers from a variety of spiritual backgrounds: Thich Nhat Hanh, the Apostles, Annie Dillard, and more. Lessening our attachments, decreasing our aversions, unbinding what binds us, we bear witness to the possibility of awakening for all beings. The Grace in Aging offers guidelines for older individuals of any wisdom tradition who wish to awaken before they die; no need for caves or seven-year retreats. This is spiritual practice for the lives we live.
Author : Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062956450
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Growing Old written by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Growing Old is unlike anything you've read before about old age. It's not a chirpy guidebook to successful aging (often written by people in their forties and fifties—who haven't gotten there yet!) but something far deeper and revelatory. By turns hilarious, poignant, fascinating, and disturbing, every page is brutally honest. If you ever plan to grow old or know anyone else who's already there, you'll find insights here you'll see nowhere else." — Sy Montgomery, New York Times bestselling author of The Soul of an Octopus “Written by one of our most distinguished observers of human and animal behavior who has now decided to observe herself, this book is a witty, wise, frank, and ultimately comforting look--from the inside out--at the universal experience of growing old.” — Dale Peterson, author of Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man and The Ghosts of Gombe “This is a true gift. Elizabeth has trekked the Arctic Circle and lived with the Bushmen—not your typical human. Yet, she shares how time catches up with us all. Her unexpectedly delightful book made me realize the good decisions my grandparents made, and think about how I should should approach my own future. A unique look at a universal process that we need not fear—and might come to relish.” — Dr. Mark W. Moffett, anthropologist-explorer and author of The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall "Octogenarian Thomas tackles old age in this clever and astute memoir…Thomas is an inspiring example of a life well lived, and her sense of humor, honesty, and curiosity will resonate.” — Publisher’s Weekly, STARRED review "With wit and humor, Thomas thoughtfully conveys the realities of aging. This fully absorbing memoir will especially resonate with readers over 65 and those who work with geriatric populations, yet all readers should find much wisdom to be gained from this warm offering." — Library Journal "Thomas turns her curiosity about all things natural toward a subject that many choose to ignore, willfully or not....With each age-related topic, Thomas writes candidly and with occasional dark humor, sharing both the good and the bad...." — Kirkus Reviews
Author : Lewis Richmond
Publisher : Avery
ISBN 13 : 1592407471
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (924 download)
Download or read book Aging as a Spiritual Practice written by Lewis Richmond and published by Avery. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a Buddhist perspective on aging well, with anecdotes of the author's experiences with illness, aging, and transformation, and guided meditations.
Author : Muriel R. Gillick
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674037596
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Denial of Aging written by Muriel R. Gillick and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You’ve argued politics with your aunt since high school, but failing eyesight now prevents her from keeping current with the newspaper. Your mother fractured her hip last year and is confined to a wheelchair. Your father has Alzheimer’s and only occasionally recognizes you. Someday, as Muriel Gillick points out in this important yet unsettling book, you too will be old. And no matter what vitamin regimen you’re on now, you will likely one day find yourself sick or frail. How do you prepare? What will you need? With passion and compassion, Gillick chronicles the stories of elders who have struggled with housing options, with medical care decisions, and with finding meaning in life. Skillfully incorporating insights from medicine, health policy, and economics, she lays out action plans for individuals and for communities. In addition to doing all we can to maintain our health, we must vote and organize—for housing choices that consider autonomy as well as safety, for employment that utilizes the skills and wisdom of the elderly, and for better management of disability and chronic disease. Most provocatively, Gillick argues against desperate attempts to cure the incurable. Care should focus on quality of life, not whether it can be prolonged at any cost. “A good old age,” writes Gillick, “is within our grasp.” But we must reach in the right direction.
Author : Marie De Hennezel
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143123505
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book The Warmth of the Heart Prevents Your Body from Rusting written by Marie De Hennezel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breakout bestseller in France and the U.K. and a transformative guide to growing older with confidence, courage, and even optimism How should we accept aging? It’s inevitable, and yet in Western society the very subject of growing older is shrouded in anxiety and shame. Aging brings us face to face with our sacred and our mundane, our imperfections and our failures. Here internationally renowned clinical psychologist and bestselling French author Marie de Hennezel shows us how to see the later stages of life through a prism that celebrates our accomplishments and gives us fulfillment in our present. Combining personal anecdotes with psychological theory, philosophy, and eye-opening scientific research from around the world, this thought-provoking and refreshing book provides a brave and uplifting meditation on our later years as they should be lived.
Author : Marie De Hennezel
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101567023
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Art of Growing Old written by Marie De Hennezel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking approach to aging from one of France's best- known clinical psychologists. How should we accept growing old? It's an inevitable progression and yet in Western society the very subject of aging is often taboo and shrouded in anxiety and shame. Not anymore, says Marie de Hennezel, an internationally renowned clinical psychologist and bestselling author. Now that our lives are longer and richer than ever before, it's imperative to demystify our greatest fear and cultivate a positive awareness of aging. In this timely and essential book, de Hennezel offers a fresh perspective on the art of growing old. She confronts head-on the inevitable grief we sustain at the loss of our youth and explains how refusing to age and move forward in life is actually what makes us become old. Combining personal anecdotes with psychological theory, philosophy, and eye-opening scientific research from around the world, she shows why we should look forward to embracing everything aging has to offer in terms of human and spiritual enrichment. The Art of Growing Old is a thought-provoking, brave, and uplifting meditation on the later years as they should be lived.
Author : Carmel Shalev
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1786784300
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book In Praise of Ageing written by Carmel Shalev and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'In this moving and tender meditation on the process of growing old, Carmel Shalev reveals ageing as a new beginning rather than a shameful ending of life.'' -- Stephen Batchelor Drawing on the insights of Buddhism, In Praise of Ageing invites the reader to meet the challenges of growing older with an open mind in order to age with grace, understanding and wisdom. Written by an Israeli human rights lawyer who specialized in bio-ethics, including end-of-life care, the book looks at the current cultural context of youth versus age, and weaves the author's personal experiences of her own and her parents' ageing with ancient Buddhist wisdom that accepts growing older as a natural process. All phenomena appear, fade and disappear. So, too, our lives proceed from birth to death. The four parts of the book address reality, vulnerability, identity and meaning. We can acknowledge reality, see the impermanence of the weakening body, and accept that we are subject to ageing, sickness and death. But we also must deal with the social prejudices against ageing that bring new vulnerabilities, such as the questions of identity that arise when we retire from the workforce. This book shows that it is nonetheless in our hands to shape our place in the world and find meaning as elders with love, compassion, joy and equanimity. Ageing, indeed, has its hardships. Yet we have a choice how to relate to our experience - with animosity or friendliness. If we open our minds to ageing with a compassionate, curious and courageous heart, we can find treasures of wisdom to share as our heritage to future generations.
Author : Stanley Hauerwas
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802846075
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Growing Old in Christ written by Stanley Hauerwas and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2003-06-20 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the hallmarks of contemporary culture is its attitude toward aging and the elderly. Youth and productivity are celebrated in today's society, while the elderly are increasingly marginalized. This not only poses difficulties for old people but is also a loss for the young and middle-agers, who could learn much from the elderly, including what it means to grow old (and die) "in Christ." Growing Old in Christ presents the first serious theological reflection ever on what it means to grow old, particularly in our culture and particularly as a Christian. In a full-orbed discussion of the subject, eighteen first-rate Christian thinkers survey biblical and historical perspectives on aging, look at aging in the modern world, and describe the "Christian practice of growing old." Along the way they address many timely issues, including the medicalization of aging, the debate over physician-assisted suicide, and the importance of friendships both among the elderly and between the elderly and the young. Weighty enough to instruct theologians, ethicists, and professional caregivers yet accessible enough for pastors and general readers, this book will benefit anyone seeking faith-based insight into growing old. Contributors: David Aers David Cloutier Rowan A. Greer Stanley Hauerwas Judith C. Hays Richard B. Hays Shaun C. Henson L. Gregory Jones Susan Pendleton Jones Patricia Beattie Jung D. Stephen Long M. Therese Lysaught David Matzko McCarthy Keith G. Meador Charles Pinches Joel James Shuman Carole Bailey Stoneking Laura Yordy
Author : Sureshwar Pandey
Publisher : Alpha Science Int'l Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781842651452
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Clinical Orthopaedic Diagnosis written by Sureshwar Pandey and published by Alpha Science Int'l Ltd.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of this highly comprehensive and successful textbook which illustrates a detailed and systematic approach to a methodical clinical examination of the orthopaedic patients. Embodies all the methods used in a logical and readily accessible manner. Covers both traumatic and non-traumatic cases.
Author : Robert N. Butler
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101187794
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Longevity Prescription written by Robert N. Butler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The internationally revered, Pulitzer Prize-winning father of geriatric medicine offers a revitalizing plan for living a longer and better life. The Longevity Prescription outlines eight essential facets of longevity: exercise, nutrition, mental vitality, sleep, relaxation, love and intimacy, community connections, and medical care. Based on proven discoveries, the strategies in each of these areas stretch the proceeds of the "three-decade dividend," while delaying or eliminating chronic illness. With step-by-step guidance for formulating an action plan and adopting new habits and strategies, The Longevity Prescription also guides readers through special challenges, such as diabetes and cancer. A baby boomer turns sixty every 7.6 seconds, but many of America's graying millions approach the later years of life with fear and trepidation. Emphasizing clear-cut research findings that balance physical health with emotional well-being, Butler and his colleagues offer a definitive path to whole-life happiness.
Author : George E. Vaillant
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 9780316090070
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Aging Well written by George E. Vaillant and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2003-01-08 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a unique series of studies, Harvard University has followed 824 subjects from their teens to old age. Professor George Vaillant now uses these to illustrate the surprising factors involved in reaching happy, healthy old age.
Author : SM Tuli
Publisher : Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9389188547
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Practical Orthopedics written by SM Tuli and published by Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers. This book was released on 2019-11-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ee Heok Kua
Publisher : Armour Publishing Pte Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9789814138369
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (383 download)
Download or read book An Undefeated Mind written by Ee Heok Kua and published by Armour Publishing Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2005 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel is about people who struggle with mental illness and the stigma which haunts them. The triumph of the human spirit testifies to the aphorism that a man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Author : Tarynn M. Witten
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 142140320X
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Aging written by Tarynn M. Witten and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The graying of the US population draws increasing focus to historically unattended segments of society, including sexual and gender minorities. This title addresses the challenges of aging in the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and intersex populations. It presents what is known about aging GLBT individuals.
Author : Joseph E. Davis
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 026810803X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (681 download)
Download or read book The Evening of Life written by Joseph E. Davis and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although philosophy, religion, and civic cultures used to help people prepare for aging and dying well, this is no longer the case. Today, aging is frequently seen as a problem to be solved and death as a harsh reality to be masked. In part, our cultural confusion is rooted in an inadequate conception of the human person, which is based on a notion of absolute individual autonomy that cannot but fail in the face of the dependency that comes with aging and decline at the end of life. To help correct the ethical impoverishment at the root of our contemporary social confusion, The Evening of Life provides an interdisciplinary examination of the challenges of aging and dying well. It calls for a re-envisioning of cultural concepts, practices, and virtues that embraces decline, dependency, and finitude rather than stigmatizes them. Bringing together the work of sociologists, anthropologists, philosophers, theologians, and medical practitioners, this collection of essays develops an interrelated set of conceptual tools to discuss the current challenges posed to aging and dying well, such as flourishing, temporality, narrative, and friendship. Above all, it proposes a positive understanding of thriving in old age that is rooted in our shared vulnerability as human beings. It also suggests how some of these tools and concepts can be deployed to create a medical system that better responds to our contemporary needs. The Evening of Life will interest bioethicists, medical practitioners, clinicians, and others involved in the care of the aging and dying. Contributors: Joseph E. Davis, Sharon R. Kaufman, Paul Scherz, Wilfred M. McClay, Kevin Aho, Charles Guignon, Bryan S. Turner, Janelle S. Taylor, Sarah L. Szanton, Janiece Taylor, and Justin Mutter
