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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Tangled lives	Lillian B. Rubin	As the author "lies in a hospital bed recovering from a nearly fatal blood clot," she recalls her immigrant Jewish family's struggle, her relationships with her mother and her daughter, and her own a…	OL16028825W
Neurovascular medicine	Kenneth Maiese	Disorders of the nervous and vascular systems continue to burden the planet's population not only with increasing morbidity and mortality, but also with a significant financial drain through increasi…	OL16923047W
Handbook of the psychology of aging	K. Warner Schaie	The Handbook of the Psychology of Aging has become the definitive reference source for information on the psychology of adult development and aging. It provides comprehensive reviews of research on b…	OL16970058W
Aging, biotechnology, and the future	Green, Robert C.,Michael A. Smyer	From the Publisher: This wide-ranging, multidisciplinary collection examines how advances in medicine and technology are affecting the aging process and the lives of elderly persons. In analyzing the…	OL17923663W
Changing shoes	Tina Sloan	After twenty-six years starring as nurse Lillian Raines on the hit soap opera Guiding Light, Tina Sloan knows a thing or two about surviving the pitfalls of growing older in front of the world. From …	OL17924698W
Gerontological nursing	Kristen L. Mauk	"Gerontological Nursing: Competencies for Care, Fourth Edition focuses on caring for the elderly by employing a holistic and interdisciplinary approach. The text follows the framework of the core com…	OL18633489W
Discourses on aging and dying	Priyadarshi Patnaik	Papers presented at the National Conference on Aging and Dying : Relevance of Indic Perspectives to End-of Life Care, held at Kharagpur during 4-6 November, 2005.	OL18664815W
Seasons of life	John N. Kotre	Program 5, Late adulthood (Ages 60+). A variety of case studies look at the last stage of development when people consider whether the story of their life has been a good one. The significance of gra…	OL19078W
My year of running dangerously	Tom Foreman	"CNN correspondent Tom Foreman's remarkable journey from half-hearted couch potato to ultra-marathon runner, with four half-marathons, three marathons, and 2,000 miles of training in between; a poign…	OL20020313W
Life reimagined	Barbara Bradley Hagerty	"A dynamic and inspiring exploration of the new science that is redrawing the future for people in their forties, fifties, and sixties for the better--and for good. There's no such thing as an inevi…	OL20022326W
Four last songs	Linda Hutcheon	Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Richard Strauss (1864-1949), Olivier Messiaen (1908-92), and Benjamin Britten (1913-76) all wrote operas late in life, pieces that reveal unique responses to the challenge…	OL20023084W
Senior moments	Willard Spiegelman	"A moving collection of essays on aging and happiness Drawing on more than six decades' worth of lessons from his storied career as a writer and professor, Willard Spiegelman reflects with candid hum…	OL20047836W
Introduction to the psychology of ageing for non-specialists	Ian Stuart-Hamilton	A comprehensive introduction to the psychology of ageing for non-specialists. It covers all the key issues, from definitions of ageing and life expectancy to the aspects of ageing that have the most …	OL20923504W
Senior Moments	Sheri Cobb South	337 pages (large print) ; 23 cm	OL21142972W
Integrating aging topics into psychology	Susan Krauss Whitbourne,John C. Cavanaugh	This edited book provides psychology instructors with practical instructions for integrating aging and adult development topics into their courses. The field of gerontology is one of the fastest grow…	OL21182559W
Life after youth	Ruth Harriet Jacobs	"Once depicted as witches, croneks, and hags in fiction, burned at the stake in the not-so-distant past, the older woman is still largely scorned in America today. In a solidly researched, compassion…	OL2632845W
Communion	Bell Hooks,Montserrat Asensio Fernández	Intimate, revealing, provocative, Communion challenges every woman to courageously claim the search for love as the heroic journey we must all choose to be truly free. In her trademark commanding and…	OL277285W
Adult Development and Aging	Susan Krauss Whitbourne	"The Fifth Edition of Adult Development and Aging: Biopsychosocial Perspectives continues to provide psychologists with a fresh and engaging approach to the field of psychology of adult development a…	OL3269896W
The memory bible	Gary W. Small	Forgetting someone’s name, where you put your keys, or what you were just about to say, are moments that we all experience. Most of the time we chalk it up to mere forgetfulness and say that it’s a n…	OL6441805W
When Did I Stop Being Barbie and Become Mrs. Potato Head?	Mary Pierce	This hilarious collection of real-life 'adventures in growing older' will make you laugh, encourage you with the assurance that you are not alone, and give you the comfort of God's unchanging, ageles…	OL9195902W