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The Sandwich Years: When Your Kids Need Friends and Your Parents Need Parenting

Dennis L. Gibson

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A Must Read For Anyone With Aging Parents 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book is great!!! It's full of logical and practical advice for anyone who is feeling overwhelmed by thoughts about having to care for their aging parents and still having a life at the same time. This isn't a book of instructions - the authors actually "talk" to you and share experiences that you can relate to and apply to your own situation. My own mother's aging has been of concern to me lately and I feel much better and far more prepared since I read this book.

I highly recommend it!

How to Prepare for Your High School Reunion and Other Midlife Musings

Susan Allen Toth

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It helped me laugh about my upcoming reunion 4 out of 5 stars.
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10 years ago I spotted this book while approaching my twentieth reunion. I fell in love with the title essay and am now ordering it for a friend as we approach yet another reunion. This is not a how to book. It is a collection of musings on life, and a very enjoyable one.

The Adult Years: Mastering the Art of Self-Renewal (Jossey Bass Social and Behavioral Science Series)

Frederic M. Hudson

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The Adult Years - Great Resource and Compelling Reading 5 out of 5 stars.
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Lot's of valuable information. Written in a conversational style that is easy to read. Helpful insights and practical advice. A real resource to help you understand the life you are living.

New Beginnings for the Young at Heart 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is the best conceputalizaton of the second half of life that I have ever read.It puts theory into practice and teaches that one can stay young and continually evolving with the proper attitute, learning and social environments tempered with an active healthy life style. The concept of retirement is no longer valid in the 21st century. We must think of
'protirement'now that can live to be centegenarians.
We must entrepreneur our futures and proactively build
on the new or retooled skills of the previous years. Our tasks become:redefining values,renewing our life's purpose, continually training to stay ahead in the ever-changing world and transition gracefully with our wisdom into new and exciting terrain. Along with the challenge of growth and change,
we bring the wisdom of the years.

Coaches will help us with change and transition, for they are not
simply 'change agents', but 'change masters' trained to accompany up on our journey,to help guide our vision of the
life we long for before we say 'adieu'.

Editorial Review:

The Adult Years is a compelling look at adulthood as an opportunity for continual revitalization, reorientation, and positive change. In this revised edition, Frederic Hudson updates and refines his vision, reflecting the extraordinary challenges we all face in today's fast-paced, ever-changing society. Whether you are eighteen or eighty-eight, this classic best-selling guide will inspire you to unlock the power of personal renewal.



Praise for the First Edition

"The most compelling book ever written on personal transition and transformation. If you are concerned about your own renewal and the renewal of our planet, you must read this book."--James M. Kouzes, coauthor of The Leadership Challenge, Second Edition

The Second Middle Age: Looking Differently at Life Beyond 50

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The Script of Life in Modern Society: Entry into Adulthood in a Changing World

Marlis Buchmann

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Social scientists generally agree that relations between the different life stages in advanced industrial societies are changing. Far less agreement exists over how to interpret these changes. Using an innovative approach to the study of life course, Marlis Buchmann explores the changes in educational, occupational, and family careers that threaten an end to familiar life patterns characteristic of the mid-twentieth century.

Crossroads at Midlife: Your Aging Parents, Your Emotions, and Your Self

Frances Cohen Praver

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With medical science, healthcare, and healthy lifestyles extending our lifespans as never before, more and more "midlife" adults are finding themselves caring for their aging parents. This role can trigger not only logistical and financial challenges, but also great emotional upheaval. There is a reversal of roles as the "child"--often in the midst of raising his or her own adolescent or young adult offspring--becomes the caretaker of the parent. A parent's aging and mortality elicits strong feelings of loss, and a stark realization of one's own aging and mortality. Past, present, and future paths converge, and the caretaker is at the center of that crossroads. Psychologist Praver--a specialist working with such caretakers--shows us their inner worlds, and how they used a difficult point in their lives to embark on a journey of self-understanding and self-transformation--a journey toward a more meaningful life for themselves. Readers can gain a better understanding of their own lives-- and know they are not alone in their struggles to contend with and find powerful benefits from the emotional side of caring for an aging parent. Distress can become peace of mind, as we see in the stories of men and women who sought Praver's help. Relationships that might be weakened by a caretaker role--relationships between caretakers and their children, spouses, and friends--can actually grow stronger with the experience. Profound issues affecting caretakers are shared in this evocative book, which is an enlightening and enjoyable read.

The Sociology of Aging

Diana Harris

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Leaving Home Before Marriage: Ethnicity, Familism, And Generational Relationships (Life Course Studies)

Frances Goldscheider

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This study explores a step that young American adults are increasingly taking - setting up a household alone or with housemates. It examines gender attitudes, ethnic and religious values, and generational relationships which shape the path young people take to residential independence.

The Third Age: The Six Priciples Of Personal Growth And Renewal After 40

William Sadler

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Stimulating, thought-provoking and immensely encouraging 5 out of 5 stars.
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I found this book to be stimulating and encouraging - rather than focus, as so many books do, on traditional concepts of 'aging' and 'retirement' as end points of life, this book illuminates the extraordinary opportunities for growth that can be available to those who permit themselves to take advantage of them. I've read it several times; with each reading, I see more parallels with my life. I would recommend it to anyone reluctant to surrender to stagnation and interested in learning about some remarkable, and clearly real, people.

Editorial Review:

Medical and technological breakthroughs have, in effect, given most of us the equivalent of a thirty-year life bonus. As a result, we face a new period in the middle of our lives, what Europeans call the third age, which challenges us to change the way we live and transform the way we age. Based on a major study of the unfolding lives of a select group of men and women (from mid-forties to eighties), The Third Age shares their collective wisdom and illustrates how we can creatively redesign our lives in anticipation of and through our added years.Rediscovering a youthful spirit and staying truly involved in life demands an attitudinal shift, a resistance to outdated stereotypes, and an effort to balance the seemingly paradoxical pulls on our time and energy. Practically instructive and powerfully inspiring, The Third Age expertly guides us toward and through the second half of our lives.

The 50 Year Dash

Bob Greene

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A man turning 50 was asked if he really felt middle-aged.  "I don't feel middle-aged," he replied.  "I feel like a teenager who's been in a fight."

That funny, chin-up, defiant declaration captures Bob Greene's own feelings about life at the big five-oh, and sets the tone for this wonderful new book of reflections on family, career, money, sex, mortality, friendship, regrets, memories, doctors, rivals, yearnings, sleep, lust, embarrassments, and horizons.  The 50-Year Dash touches on everything that's part of life at fifty: looking at aches and pains as a growth industry, and seeing the constant onslaught of new pain relievers as a modern version of the British invasion of rock groups in the 1960s; finding that the world is no longer sufficiently quiet, and that you're the one yelling "Turn that down!"; realizing you're older than James Bond ever was; hearing yourself say, "The fruit plate looks good," and meaning it; understanding that the one thing which seems to be going away from you the fastest is that first-time feeling--first job, first house, first kiss--and knowing that the best thing you can do for yourself is try to keep finding that feeling again and again.

Between now and the year 2014, 77 million American men and women will turn 50, entering a strange land that once seemed so far away.  The 50-Year Dash is a whimsical, wise, funny, bittersweet, evocative, nostalgic book to take along on the journey.

Bob Greene's national bestsellers include Be True to Your School; Hang Time: Days and Dreams with Michael Jordan; Good Morning, Merry Sunshine; and, with his sister, D.G. Fulford, To Our Children's Children: Preserving Family Histories for Generations to Come.  Greene is a syndicated columnist for the Chicago Tribune; his column appears in more than two hundred newspapers in the United States, Canada, and Japan.  For nine years his "American Beat" was the lead column in Esquire magazine; and as a broadcast journalist he has served as contributing correspondent for ABC News Nightline.  The 50-Year Dash is his sixteenth book.  His next--Chevrolet Summers, Dairy Queen Nights--will be published in the fall of 1997.