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New Passages

Gail Sheehy

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THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Millions of readers literally defined their lives through Gail Sheehy's landmark bestseller Passages. Seven years ago she set out to write a sequel, but instead she discovered a historic revolution in the adult life cycle. . .
People are taking longer to grow up and much longer to die. A fifty-year-old woman--who remains free of cancer and heart disease-- can expect to see her ninety-second birthday. Men, too, can expect a dramatically lengthened life span. The old demarcations and descriptions of adulthood--beginning at twenty-one and ending at sixty-five--are hopelessly out of date. In New Passages, Gail Sheehy discovers and maps out a completely new frontier--a Second Adulthood in middle life.
"Stop and recalculate," Sheehy writes. "Imagine the day you turn forty-five as the infancy of another life." Instead of declining, men and women who embrace a Second Adulthood are progressing through entirely new passages into lives of deeper meaning, renewed playfulness, and creativity--beyond both male and female menopause. Through hundreds of personal and group interviews, national surveys of professionals and working-class people, and fresh findings extracted from fifty years of U.S. Census reports, Sheehy vividly dramatizes these newly developing stages. Combining the scholar's ability to synthesize data with the novelist's gift for storytelling, she allows us to make sense of our own lives by understanding others like us.
New Passages tells us we have the ability to customize our own life cycle. This groundbreaking work is certain to awaken and permanently alter the way we think about ourselves.
"SHEEHY CLEARLY STATES IDEAS ABOUT LIFE THAT HAVE NEVER BEFORE BEEN AS CLEARLY STATED."
--Los Angeles Times Book Review
"AN OPTIMISTIC ANALYSIS OF ADULT DEVELOPMENT IN PESSIMISTIC TIMES. . . It is grounded in the economic and psychological realities that make adult life so complex today."
--The New York Times Book Review

The New Retirementality: Planning Your Life and Living Your Dreams....at Any Age You Want

Mitch Anthony

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With this latest edition of The New Retirementality, readers will quickly discover how to achieve the freedom to pursue their retirement goals–at their own pace, on their own terms–regardless of their age. Most people won't experience the same retirement that their parents did, nor do they necessarily want to. Page by page, top financial planner Mitch Anthony reveals how new opportunities will enable individuals to create tailor-made retirements. He includes new research and studies to back his insights and introduces readers to important concepts such as "wealthcare" and "return on life." Filled with engaging anecdotes and inspirational suggestions, this book will motivate readers to rethink the way they retire.

Your Retirement, Your Way: Why It Takes More Than Money to Live Your Dream

Alan Bernstein, John Trauth

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Create a new life plan to thrive in your retirement

"In Your Retirement, Your Way, Alan and John lead the way to a new and dynamic definition of retirement. They begin with this exciting premise: the more you clearly identify your own personal style, the more you will experience a powerful and fulfilling next chapter in your life. With the variety of guides and road maps they provide, including a sample version of the Birkman® (a mini-Birkman®), readers can navigate their way to a more confident phase of life that offers both purpose and renewal."
--Dr. Roger W. Birkman, Chairman, Birkman International, Inc.

After years of focusing on career and family, most of us embark on the next phase of life with only a vague idea of what will make us happy. But you can guarantee yourself a long and successful retirement with Your Retirement, Your Way!

Its revolutionary retirement planning approach combines a powerful self-assessment system based on the Birkman Method®--a personality assessment system used by companies and government agencies worldwide--with sophisticated financial planning tools and step-by-step guidelines that allow you to:

• Define your ideal retirement environment
• Determine where you are now, financially, and where you want to be
• Map out a solid plan for realizing your dreams in the shortest time possible

Drinking Problems at the Fountain of Youth

Beth Teitell

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Short of spending every waking hour engaged in antiaging treatments, is there anything the average woman can do to shave even a few months from her appearance? Do any of the miracle creams, procedures, or magic potions actually make a person look more youthful? Does a woman have to worry about her nasolabial folds if she doesn't even know where they're located on her body? Veteran journalist Beth Teitell aims to find the answers to these questions and many more in her hilarious travels looking for the elusive elixir of youth.

If you feel bad about your neck (or any other body part), if the idea of Botox-filled syringes fills you with horror, if you don't want to empty your wallet to pay for $475 serums that promise to cheer up aging skin or the hourly cost of a facial-fitness coach, or if you don't believe the claims of antiaging gummy bears or age-defying bottled water, then Drinking Problems at the Fountain of Youth is the book for you. There's not a woman in America who won't see herself in Teitell's struggles or come away feeling that the enormous amount of energy, time, and money we spend trying to restore our bodies to the way they were when we were twenty could be better spent elsewhere.

With honesty, outrage, and wit, Teitell goes deep into the youth-at-any-cost culture and takes it apart from the inside out. And then she reassures us that there is hope—there are things we can do to look and feel younger, and ways we can learn to stop worrying about looking older.

Drinking Problems at the Fountain of Youth is for every woman who isn't as young as she used to be—a book of wisdom and advice, and a laugh-out-loud look at our age-obsessed culture.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Older & Wiser: Stories of Inspiration, Humor, and Wisdom about Life at a Certain Age (Chicken Soup for the Soul; Our 101 Best Stories)

Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark

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We know how it is to cross the magic 60-year mark and feel young at heart despite a few new wrinkles.  We wouldn’t trade away a bit of our wisdom and experience to get rid of all those life markers. This is the first Chicken Soup book to focus on the wonders of getting older, with many stories focusing on dynamic older singles and couples finding new careers, new sports, new love, and new meaning to their lives.  This inspiring, amusing, and heartwarming book includes the best 101 stories for today’s young seniors from Chicken Soup’s library. The book is set in larger print for easier reading.

The Last Chance Millionaire: It's Not Too Late to Become Wealthy

Douglas Andrew

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Follow this advice at your own peril! 1 out of 5 stars.
26 of 29 people found this review helpful.

This book is primarily a sales pitch aimed at getting you to borrow against your home to buy indexed universal life insurance. The author advises you to not only not contribute to a 401(k) or IRA but encourages you to withdraw the funds to buy insurance. His illustrations regarding the tax consequences of distributions from your tax deferred retirement accounts are simplistic. He also omits entirely the tax savings you have when contributing to a 401(k). If you contributed $20500 (the limit for 2007 for someone age 50 or over to a 401(k) and were paying a marginal tax combined state and federal tax rate of 33%. (A rate the author uses in many of his illustrations) you would save $6765 in taxes immediately. The tax savings can also be invested in either a taxable account or possibly a Roth IRA or even a nondeductible traditional IRA. You would then have $26,765 (not including the employer match) working for you instead of just the $20500 that you would have paid in premiums for the universal policy. The author does not mention this possibility at all. He compares a pretax 401(k) contribution to an after-tax insurance premium. He states that the 401(k) distributions are taxable when received (a true statement)and therefore you have not improved your retirement situation. However, you will have been able to save more than 30% more each year than you would have put into the insurance policy and since a significant portion of the total retirement balance will have already been taxed you can pay taxes from that side of the savings.

The author is several places compares the returns of a mutual fund to the universal life policy by assuming a 10%-11% return to both investment vehicles, conveniently ignoring that you must pay substantial insurance expense and mortality charges from the returns. If both a index mutual fund earns 10% and index universal policy earns 10% before expenses, you must compare the two vehicles after charges and expenses are deducted. In that case the mutual fund may have a 9.5% return while the insurance policy would have a 7-8% return. Although the policy credits are not subject to income taxes, the net after-tax difference is not as large as first appears. However, this is only comparing the after-tax rate of return on the policy. You must also compare the balances which will earn those returns. You will pay substantial commissions (loads) to buy an index universal policy (generally 5%-12% of the premium). After commissions you will have considerably less money working for you. You could pay as much as $24,000 in commissions on a $200,000 premium. This means that your policy will have a much lower balance than your investment for several years. See the author's illustration of values on pages 292-293. While looking at that table also note that the illustration has an initial premium payment of $62700 while he compares it to a 401(k)/IRA contribution of approximately $35,000 for a married couple (and ignores the tax savings which can also be invested). He also assumes that the 401(k)/IRA are subject to 3% sales charges and a 1% expense ratio. You can buy no-load index mutual funds all day long with no sales charge and expense ratios of less than 0.25%. In this illustration he assumes contributions to the alternative investments all cease after 10 years at age 60 and that the couple will retire at age 70 and begin taking distributions. Having shown a comparison of smaller contributions to a 401(k) with larger contributions to the retirement account, he then "proves" that the insurance policy will last longer than the 401(k)! I can present an analysis to my clients which shows that the same after-tax investment in a combination of a 401(k) and taxable account will be far superior to the insurance policy.

The advice to continue refinancing your mortgage ignores the costs of refinancing. You will incur transaction costs in refinancing. Although some mortgage brokers will advertise no closing costs you must compare the effective annual percentage rate of the loans offered. The mortgage brokerage business can be just as deceptive as the insurance brokerage business. The author also ignores the itemized deduction phase-out and alternative minimum tax consequences of his strategy to refinance and use the proceeds to buy life insurance.

I could go on for hours about problems with this author's strategies and the misleading arguments he makes. The long-term rate of appreciation on residential real estate is aproximately 6% or 3% above inflation, which coincidentally, is approximately the market rate on conventional mortgages. The current housing credit crunch is a product of strategies such as those presented in this book.

If you wish to assure an insurance agent and a mortgage broker of a good retirement, follow the strategy. Otherwise consult a good fee-only financial planner for sound planning advice. You can buy a lot of advice for the commissions you will incur following this author's sales pitch.

Editorial Review:

According to Doug Andrew, the bestselling author of Missed Fortune 101, too many Americans are being led down the wrong financial path. Even worse, many Baby Boomers find themselves panicking --fearful that they've already fallen too far behind to ever catch up. In this indispensable and eye-opening guide, Andrew provides fresh new pathways to reaching financial security -- pathways that all Americans need to consider now.

Centering on his Three Miracles of Wealth Accumulation: the Miracle of Compound Interest, the Miracle of Tax-Favored Accumulation, and the Miracle of Positive, Safe Leverage, Andrew explodes many of the commonly-held myths about 401ks, pensions, paying down one's mortgage, and other forms of retirement planning. Along the way, Andrew offers unique strategies that will not only increase your wealth, but also help readers enjoy their best years while securing their future.

Elder Rage, or Take My Father... Please!: How to Survive Caring for Aging Parents

Jacqueline Marcell

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Helped so much! 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

This is a good book for anyone trying to help elderly parents. I found the style of writing, relating all things to old tv shows, sometimes distracting and confusing but the information in the book was so worth the read. It gave me strength and focus on dealing with my Mom. I am still continuing to find resources through this book and it is really a valuable tool.

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A riveting, often humorous, non-fiction novel that chronicles Jacqueline Marcell's trials and tribulations, and eventual success at managing the care of her aging parents. Elder Rage is also an extensive self-help book with solutions for effective management, medically and behaviorally, of challenging elders who resist care. Includes answers to difficult "how to" questions like: getting obstinate elders to give up driving, accept a caregiver, see a different doctor, go to adult day care, move to a new residence--and includes a wealth of valuable resources, websites and recommended reading. The addendum by renowned dementia specialist, Rodman Shankle, MS MD: A Physician’s Guide to Treating Dementia, makes it valuable for everyone from the family to the physician. Elder Rage is required reading at several universities for graduate courses in geriatric assessment and management.

Leap!: What Will We Do With the Rest of Our Lives (Readers Circle Series)

Sara Davidson

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Thirty years ago, Sara Davidson wrote the phenomenal bestseller Loose Change, the definitive book about the boomer generation’s coming-of-age. Now this witty social observer has again turned her discerning eye to her contemporaries, with Leap!, a no-holds-barred, illuminating, and hopeful look at the choices and challenges we face and the roads open to us.

For many years Davidson earned a living as a successful journalist and screenwriter, but in her fifties she saw her life come apart: She could no longer find work, she endured a break-up with her partner, and her children left for college. For the first time ever, she had nothing to do. She felt adrift, but she found that she was not alone.

In Leap!, Davidson sets out on a passionate quest to learn how to do the coming years well. Drawing on her own experience and that of others, she explores such questions as

• How does a high-powered person learn to walk down the ladder gracefully?
• How can women continue to be sensual and not touch-deprived?
• How do we arrange to grow old with our friends?
• What will be the fire at the center of our lives?
• Why are we still here?

Davidson interviews people from across the country and from all walks of life, including such icons as Carly Simon, Tom Hayden, Tracy Kidder, Jane Fonda, Ram Dass, and Iman, as well as teachers, writers, psychologists, businesspeople, and spiritual leaders. The candid portraits are both inspiring and cautionary.

True to character, boomers will approach these years differently from previous generations, and there will be no single path. Some will feel free for the first time to take risks; others will embark upon a spiritual search; some will want to give back, to make the world a better place; others will want to play or make creativity a priority. But they will not fade quietly into the sunset.

With Leap!, Sara Davidson holds up a mirror for readers, allowing them to see not only themselves and those around them but their potential future. With Davidson as a guide, the possibilities are boundless.

Chasing Life: New Discoveries in the Search for Immortality to Help You Age Less Today

Sanjay Gupta

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For centuries, adventurers and scientists have pursued the dream of immortality. Today it appears it might actaully be a reality. This is not an anti-aging book. It's a groundbreaking guide to functionl aging--living longer than we ma y have ever thought possible. Practical immortality may now be within our grasps thanks to cutting-edge scientific research and amazing medical breakthroughs that are coming at such astonishing speed we can hardly keep up. In CHASING LIFE, Dr. Gupta blends dramatic accouts if amazing discoveries from around the world with essential advice on how you can apply them for optimal health and longevity. What Dr. Gupta has found is provacative and often counterintuitive. This life-changing book revolutionizes the way you think about aging--and reveals the secrets to helping you live a longer, healthier life for many years to come.

"Sanjay Gupta is at his best in CHASING LIFE, covering everything from illegal stem cells to the scientific edges of memory. To achieve your own version of immortality, you can simply 'page' Dr. Gupta by turning the first page of this groundbreaking new book." --Mehmet C. Oz, MD, coauthor of the New York Times bestsellers You: The Owner's Manual and You: On a Diet

"Is it possible to have the exquisite combination, the wisdom of experience along with biology of youth? In his book, CHASING LIFE, Dr. Sanjay Gupta shows you how." --Deepak Chopra, MD, FACP, author of Ageless Body, Timeless Mind

"Dr. Sanjay Gupta prescribes sensible, evidence-based advice for living a long and healthy life. He evaluates the latest scientific research on life extension, looks at anti-aging claims, and concludes that informed lifestyle choices are your best hope of maintaining good health as you age. Chasing Life is good medicine." --Andrew Weil, author of Healthy Aging

"My friend Dr. Sanjay Gupta has written a book that makes sense when it comes to staying healthy, making important medical decisions and preserving quality of life. This book is probably the closest we'll get to a map to the fountain of youth." --Lance Armstrong, Cancer survivor, Seven-time Tour de France Champion and founder of the Lance Armstrong Foundation

Alzheimer's Early Stages: First Steps for Family, Friends and Caregivers

Daniel Kuhn

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Excellent Resource 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

Many books have been written about Alzheimer's disease. However this book gives the reader an easy to understand yet thorough explanation of what a family or caregiver should do when someone (s)he loves or works for has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

Susan Berg is the author of Adorable Photographs of Our Baby: Meaningful, Mind Stimulating Activities and More for the Memory Challenged, Their Loved Ones, and Involved Professionals.

36 Hours 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

Have not finidhed thid publication but have covered approz 125 pages. The info conveyed is excellent and has caused me to modify my approach to my wifs's condition. Unfortunately she has several other probems that complicate the situation. Rgardless this bookis vey helpful so far and I expect the balance to be the same.

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This edition includes the latest information on Alzheimer’s risk factors, treatments, and prevention, as well as a new chapter, “Voices of Experience,” composed of reflections by family members. It also provides information about new drugs approved since 1999 and the federal government’s decision to cover counseling and other health-related services through Medicare.