Old Age Health

Are you confused by conflicting advice about bone health? Wondering how to avoid the painful effects of osteoporosis you saw your mother endure? Discover clear, evidence-based lifestyle strategies to build stronger bones and age with confidence. Feeling overwhelmed after being diagnosed with osteopenia or early osteoporosis? Are you unsure about which supplements to take, what exercises are safe, or whether medication is necessary?

Old age is not what it used to be. For most of human history, only a small number of people lived long enough to experience a long, active, and meaningful later life. Today, millions do. Humanity is entering one of the greatest transformations in its history: the rise of the third age, a new stage of life after work and child-rearing, filled with purpose, contribution, discovery, and wisdom. A Brief History of Old Age tells the fascinating story of how human beings have understood aging across cultures, centuries, and scientific revolutions.

The fear of growing old is a universal burden. Here’s the book you need to ensure that you move into and through old age with grit and grace. Fr. John LaFarge shows you how to conquer any fear of aging and how to make your golden years the best years of your life. At age 84, Fr. LaFarge was struck by the many advantages and blessings of aging, and he observed that modern men and women have lost touch with the traditional view of old age as the crowning summit of life. Seeing old age instead as a calamity, he says, is what makes aging such a misery for many.

After recovering from an emotional breakdown, a scrappy high school student dares to be happy and disrupt the social scene. Margaret "Cuckoo" Clarke recently had a brief stay in a mental institution following an emotional breakdown, but she's turning over a new leaf with her "Operation Happiness...