Presents a guide to healthy living after age forty, sharing illustrated advice on topics ranging from diet and exercise to intellect and home organization while providing complementary recipes and recommendations for preventing and managing chronic illness.

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, a condition to be dreaded, denigrated, neglected, and denied. Reminiscent of Oliver Sacks, noted Harvard-trained geriatrician...

A holistic look at the emotional, spiritual and physical dimensions of life after 50, showing how people can learn to embrace and celebrate life as they age.

"By 2020, 54 million people in the U.S. will be over the age of 65; by 2030, that number will top 80 million. Feeling the squeeze of multi-generational home demands, children of aging parents are struggling to learn innovative eldercare management strategies and often find themselves overwhelmed by the many facets of caregiving. Eldercare 101 is the answer to making order from chaos. As a guide covering all aspects of aging and end-of-life in one...

"Vitaminas para el cerebro es una nueva coleccion de actividades especificamente disenadas para mantener en optimo estado las habilidades cerebrales de las personas mayores. Cada uno de los tres ejemplares trae ejercicios, adivinanzas y actividades especificas para desarrollar la memoria, la atencion y concentracion o para motivar el razonamiento. Hay actividades de distinto grado de dificultad de forma tal que puedan ser aprovechadas por todo tipo...

"La longevidad depende en 25 por ciento de los genes y 75 por ciento del estilo de vida. La juventud no es sólo un asunto de genes, sino de qué haces con ellos y cómo los ayudas. Con los últimos avances de la ciencia -relacionados con el rejuvenecimiento , el detox y los métodos antiaging -, así como investigaciones sobre los niveles de felicidad, la importancia de dormir bien y lo que resulta óptimo para el cuidado de la piel, Gaby Vargas...

"Healthy aging isn't simply a roll of the dice. How people age is a choice. Researchers are finding that genes play a smaller role in overall health than most individuals realize. More often, the life people lead in their later years is a culmination of personal attitudes, decisions made, and actions taken beginning in young adulthood. Readers also will find practical tips to keep their minds, bodies, and spirits in top shape. Think of this book as...