Age groups: adults Books

Researchers have studied marriage for decades, but how is the transition to married life actually experienced by the couples involved? From an insider's perspective, Thrice Told Tales examines married couples' own stories of their relationship. A...

The problems of studying families arise from the difficulty in studying systems where there are multiple elements interacting with each other and with the child. How should this system be described? Still other problems relate to indirect effects; namely...

Over a relatively brief period of time pediatric psychology as an organized field has evolved and expanded as a science and in clinical practice. Reflecting a newer focus on family roles in health and illness, the present volume is relevant to a variety...

Facing the Challenges of a Multi-Age Workforce examines the shifting economic, cultural, and technological trends in the modern workplace that are taking place as a result of the aging global workforce. Taking an international perspective, contributors...

This book examines the issues and implications that mental health professionals face when dealing with ageing and older adults. The book focuses on the biological, psychological and cultural influences that impact on the work of mental health...

Intraindividual variability (IIV) of human development and behavior across the entire life-span is explored in this new book. Leading researchers summarize recent findings on the extent, role, and function of IIV in human development with a focus on how,...

Finding Meaning in Later Life: Gathering and Harvesting the Fruits of Women's Experience is an exploration in understanding the psychological tasks inherent for women in creating and maintaining purpose as they mature and enter their later years. With...

What Would You Focus On If You Were No Longer Weighed Down By Your Unwanted Responsibilities?If you want to add something meaningful to your life, like traveling to exotic places, composing beautiful music, or experiencing a new friendship in a foreign...

Embracing Life On Our Own TermsWhat does later life look like for you? Looking ahead to what we may traditionally call 'our retirement years', we'll have potentially only lived for two-thirds of our lives. Accepting that we all age differently,...

"There is extraordinary quality of spirit that leads one to aspire to conquering rather than surviving. I hope you discover that spirit in yourself." -- Dr. LauraThe #1 national bestselling author and popular syndicated radio host shows men and women...

The rapid growth in the numbers of older people worldwide has led to an equally rapid growth in research on the changes across age in cognitive function, including the processes of moment to moment cognition known as working memory. This book brings...

Retirement is a new season, a new opportunity, to live purposefully. You may have quit a job, but you haven't quit life! This book is a practical tool that helps you take that bucket list and get started. Using this mindful method you can take full...

Love is Possible – A Guide to connect to the Love within you and Your Partner is about overcoming the obstacles that obstruct inner peace, love and happiness. It gives a broader understanding of the work to reach our inner potentials individually...

From bestselling author of Making Friends with Anxiety and One Moment, One Morning comes a clear and comforting little book to guide you as your body changes through the menopause.Written with Sarah Rayner's trademark warmth and...

This volume brings leaders throughout the social sciences together to discuss men's current family roles, as well as what the future holds for fathers and husbands. For social and developmental psychologists, and sociologists.

Karen Cumming and Patricia Milne are sisters who embarked on a daunting journey... one that many of us may go on at some point in our lives. They guided their 98 year old mother, Verna, through Ontario's long-term care system. Unfortunately, few...

This volume addresses key issues such as the cultural and discursive context in which physical activity is discussed; the process of becoming physically active; the role of care settings in enabling physical activity; pleasure; gender; and place and...

Did you know the odds were against you being born?The odds that you are alive right at this moment in time are one in a billion zillion. 1 sperm, out of 12 trillion, had to meet one egg, out of 10,000 eggs, for you to exist.But you made...

Finger up the Bum is the no-holds-barred, too-much-information guide to everything you didn’t want to know about Michael Izen’s prostate cancer.Who is Michael Izen? Good question. In his forties, Mike was a happy family man who rarely got...

Have you ever thought about having cosmetic surgery? It is a very personal choice. Over 15 years ago, at age 16, I had cosmetic surgery on my face—a nose reduction and chin implant.I always wanted to be open about my surgery, but I felt as if I had...

When Colleen Ashby woke up blind, she knew her life would change but she didn't want everyone else's life around her to change because of it. She grabbed life by the horns and took as much control as she could, never allowing it to limit her or make her...

This timely book explores what it is like to live in an aged care home: the expectations that new residents and their families enter with, their relationships with fellow residents and formal caregivers, and how they approach, in different ways, the...

After so many years of early morning alarms and never-ending laundry, many moms expect to feel incredibly liberated when their kids leave home. But what happens when the Land of Empty Nesting isn't all it's cracked up to be-when you suddenly feel like a...

Midlife = crisis, anger, & change…So pervasive has the general awareness of this phenomenon of midlife crisis and transformation  become that as we approach this time of life we almost automatically begin to brace for a psychological...

The 41st volume of Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, "Black Older Adults in the Era of Black Lives Matter," reflects an important moment in the continuing development and maturation of research and scholarship on the lives of older Black...

This book presents a kaleidoscopic view of the positive layers of ageing as well as key interventions that can help generate and maintain positivity and well-being among the elderly. It explores the connections of ageing with spirituality, nature and...

यह केवल एक पुस्तक नही, पति-पत्नी के बीच ताउम्र प्यार बने रहने की गारंटी देने वाला मैन्युअल है। एक घंटे में जो क्लैरिटी इस पुस्तक से मुझे मिली है वह मुझे अपने संपूर्ण षादीषुदा जीवन में अभी तक नही मिल पाई। गजब!~Dr. Rajat Sinha Startupfrat Digital Coachइससे...

Your ancestors have waited your whole life for this moment. . .
. . . and the next!What if you had an opportunity to discover and connect with your ancient origins, and the gifts passed on to you from those ancestors? What if those discoveries brought...

Have you travelled outside India and faced criticism over the peculiar way of our behavior? While joining a new job in MNC, have you been questioned by your non-Indian bosses about why you need holidays for certain religious ceremonies? Have you been...

In Hardwiring vs. Rewiring, Dr. Ravi Rajaratnam examines current societal, economic, and political ills, as well as their resulting continuous moral decay, unrest, and upheavals. Having analyzed these ills and arriving at their root causes, Dr...

This book is designed for congregational leaders (pastors), district superintendents, coaches, and consultantsworking in the context of the United Methodist Church. In particular, it is intended for people who are seekingto develop leadership behaviors...

In Our Mothers, Ourselves, Cloud and Townsend show how understanding how our mothers have profoundly influenced our lives can set us on a path toward wholeness and growth.

~ Collector's Edition ~ Laminated Hardback with Jacket ~What if growing old wasn't something to fear, but a journey to embrace with wisdom and grace? In this timeless work, Cicero shares powerful insights on aging, showing how it can become a time of...

The number of seniors in our population is burgeoning and will continue to grow. Seniors are eager to tell their stories, explain their philosophies, create fictions, and vent their anger at the injustices they perceive in the nation and the world. In...

This text provides a review of methodological approaches and data-collection methods commonly used with older adults in real-life settings.

‘Endearing, explosive, heartbreaking and a little bit nuts.’— Palash Krishna Mehrotra, author and columnistHow well does a single woman hitting her forties fare in the urban jungle of romantic relationships? When Delhi-based writer and...

How exercise and meditation can help. Most importantly, you will learn how to create an evening routine, which will not just help you fall asleep naturally, but also improve the quality of your morning. You can expect to learn...

The Map of Life is Changing The nation's first generation of knowledge professionals, some thirty million Americans who've earned a living through their education, intelligence and expertise, has reached or is nearing retirement age. For more than...

If you're one of the millions of adults struggling with the grief and complex considerations of living in an empty nest, author and motivational speaker Jim Burns's much-anticipated Finding Joy in the Empty Nest will remind you that--with some practical...

“Downsizing your life is a rollercoaster of emotions. I would be lying to say it is easy.” – Rita Wilkins, “The Downsizing Designer”Rita’s downsizing journey was inspired by a trip to a third world country when...

The second book is about the importance of wellness, health, and meditation to manage stress and to be equanimous, the reasoning customs to mundane rituals, the importance of biology through the practical usage of Ayurveda, and understanding politics...

Why do some men struggle with life when they hit their 40's?  Depression.  Stress.  Poor decisions.  Suicide. Menopause in men IS real, and not the same as women get. This book explores what it is, what other factors affect men as...

Dramatic societal changes have reshaped America’s families. Young adults have delayed marriage, and cohabitation before marriage has become commonplace. One in three women giving birth is unmarried, and the proportion of children under 18...

CODING MANUAL INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE FROM THE CHAPTER AUTHORS, AND THEIR E-MAIL ADDRESSES CAN BE FOUND ON PAGE XV OF THE BOOK.Family studies is an area that has enjoyed the benefits of conceptual and methodological advances in recent years including...