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Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In the vein of Alison Bechdel or Harvey Pekar, Joyce Farmer's memoir chronicles the decline of the author's parents' health, their relationship with one another and with their daughter, and how they cope with the day-to-day emotional fragility of the most taxing time of their lives. Set in southern Los Angeles (which makes for a terrifying sequence as blind Rachel and ailing Lars are trapped in their home without power during the 1992 Rodney King...
Publisher
Hearst Editions, an imprint of Hearst Magazines
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The experts from "Women's Day" draw on the "Love Your Age" column to outline panelist-tested strategies for enabling a more youthful appearance, sharing stories from celebrity spokespeople and anti-aging recipes from a "Today Show" nutrition expert.
Author
Publisher
Ulysses Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A fully illustrated, step-by-step program that improves the mobility of seniors and promotes long-term health. Flexibility is vital for staying active and healthy at any age. For aging adults, good mobility drastically improves quality of life and the ability to live independently. Featuring 200 step-by-step photos and a lay-flat binding, Restoring Flexibility offers a safe, age-appropriate, and individually customizable program to help restore joint...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Physician 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, a...
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