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It’s time to break the retirement mold and do retirement your way. Whether you want to keep working beyond the traditional retirement years, enjoy a classic retirement playing golf and bridge, go back to school, or start a business, this book offers a clear 7-step roadmap to help you get there and enjoy the journey.

Lewy Body Blues: A Family’s Roller Coaster Experience with Lewy Body Dementia is an insider’s perspective on how one family adapted and learned to cope with this incredibly challenging and progressively debilitating disease. Based on a personal journey and filled with facts and strategies for handling Lewy Body Dementia, this book is essential listening for anyone desiring to learn more about this little-known brain disorder.

What If Aging Was Optional? Discover Proven Ways to Stay Younger, Longer. If you’ve ever felt like you’re slowing down but aren’t ready to give in to aging, you’re not alone. Imagine adding 10, 20, or even 30 years to your life while living with the energy and vitality of someone decades younger. Inside this audiobook, you’ll uncover science-backed strategies to revolutionize how you age, feel, and live. Here are just a few of the life-changing insights you’ll discover: Simple changes to your diet that can extend your lifespan and boost vitality.

Minimalism is not just a series of actions but also a total mind-set shift. It recognises that modern-day abundance has not increased our level of happiness - in fact we are less happy than generations before despite having more - and it argues that embracing less will allow us to live more fully. This handbook gives us the tools to achieve this complete life-changing mental shift, teaching us how to search for items and thoughts that add value to our lives and how to get rid of nonessential physical and mental clutter.

With actionable steps and science-backed strategies, this guide helps you redefine your approach to skin health.

In Open to Love, two therapists share their personal and professional stories of love and romance in the later years. Inspirational, and most of all, relatable, Gloria Horsley and Frank Powers show listeners how to face their fears about dating, identify what they want in a partner, and learn how to find love in the golden years.

From the heart of Henri Nouwen comes wisdom for the caregiver about the transformational power of relationship in the unique bond between caregiver and care receiver. Interlacing stories from his own life and the lives of friends, Nouwen communicates warmth and compassion as he shares insights on what it means to be a caregiver and to be cared for.

Tasha Morton is a force of nature: a brilliant educator who’s left her mark on generations of students—and also a whirlwind of a mother, intrusive, chaotic, oppressively devoted, and irrepressible.

The late film icon and screen legend Kirk Douglas was married to Anne Buydens for more than six decades. Here they both look back on a lifetime filled with drama both on and off the screen. Sharing priceless correspondence with each other as well as the celebrities and world leaders they called friends, Kirk and Anne is a candid portrayal of the pleasures and pitfalls of a Hollywood life lived in the public eye. Compiled from Anne's private archive of letters and photographs, this is an intimate glimpse into the Douglases' courtship and marriage.

Do you remember when the milkman delivered and TV was a test pattern and a snowy channer? When Fibber McGee and Molly captured your imagination on Monday-night radio and cars had rumble seats and running boards? Then you are a golden soul, someone rich with experience who can embrace life with more freedom and perspective than you ever had when you were younger.

In The Sin of Retirement, financial advisor, Army veteran, and lifelong mentor David Szafranski confronts the cultural script that has sidelined a generation. Drawing from decades of experience guiding clients, from pro athletes to everyday families, David offers practical, grace-filled wisdom for those approaching or already in retirement. Through real-life stories, Scripture, and hard-earned insights, this book calls listeners to something richer than relaxation: to live with purpose, give with joy, and matter again.

In these moments of upheaval, you may have yearned for someone who understands what you’re going through and can shed light on your struggles. This is where this guide comes into play. Through this book, you will feel like you finally have a roadmap to navigate the often confusing terrain of menopause.

This Way Out! is an engaging, fast-paced, and humor-laced guide for Americans considering a life abroad. With a voice reminiscent of Bill Bryson, it feels like a letter from a close friend who has gone before you. Dave Wollert offers a candid, entertaining, and highly informative account of his personal journey relocating to Nice, France in his seventies. The result is part memoir and part practical handbook peppered with wit, seasoned insights, encouragement, and genuine emotional warmth.

Ever wondered what online dating is really like after 50? Spoiler: It’s not all swiping left on awkward selfies and swiping right on people who list "travel" as their only hobby. In Flirting with Fate: A Dating Odyssey, you'll join one man’s hilarious, sometimes painful, but ultimately enlightening journey into the world of digital romance.

Turning fifty can feel like standing at a crossroads—exhausted, stretched thin, and wondering who you’ve become. Halfway There is a collection of letters written to men navigating this exact journey: fathers, husbands, friends, and brothers who feel lost, tired, or uncertain about the road ahead. In these letters, you’ll find honesty about the weight of responsibility, the pressure of bills, the struggle to maintain identity, and the desire for purpose and adventure.

Many seniors are looking for ways to redefine their retirement years — to fill them with purpose, connection, and vitality. Imagine waking up each day excited to engage in activities that enrich your life, even as time brings unexpected changes. This guide takes a holistic approach — showing how the life skills we learned as children and used through our working years can evolve and support us as we grow older.

Peter Lennartz, erfahrener Coach für Ruheständler, kennt die Gedanken, die viele bewegen: Wie fülle ich plötzlich so viel freie Zeit sinnvoll? Was macht mich jetzt wirklich glücklich? Welche Herzenswünsche oder Interessen möchte ich endlich ausleben? Wie halte ich Körper und Geist in Schwung? Und wie bleibe ich mit anderen Menschen – mit Familie, Freunden und Bekannten – verbunden? Mit Leichtigkeit und viel Herz zeigt Peter Lennartz, wie man Unsicherheiten überwindet und die unzähligen Möglichkeiten dieser neuen Lebensphase entdeckt.

Aging is not fun. It can be a very difficult time as we see our bodies changing, as we realize we are saying goodbye to our youth. It can be a time of grieving. However, it can also be a time when we experience our greatest freedom. It can be a time when we finally get to do what we really want to do and be who we want to be.

Your insomnia is doing more damage than simply keeping you awake at night. It's time to conquer it once and for all!

Cancer treatment-both an incredible miracle and a singularly depleting experience-means Bruce McIntyre will have to make a comeback. Determined to regain energy and strength and armed with the freedom that comes with retirement, McIntyre begins training for and competing in triathlons. With humor and insight, McIntyre recounts the new athletic pursuits that put him in the best shape of his life-until a near fatal bicycle crash forces him to decide what is best for his safety.