Growing Older Staying Young

Your old age should be a new age. Make the most of your tomorrows by making the most of today. You're over the hill - past it. If you are not past it, you're rapidly approaching whatever the ""it"" is. The idea of this book is to shuffle the ""it"" a little bit further into the future, to prolong the vigour and energy you may already possess. Getting Older, Staying Young is an in-depth exploration of an everyday man's journey into his golden years. He examines the elements of which he has control: diet, exercise, hygiene and mental activity, and sets himself on a new path of self-improvement. Inspiring and insightful, Neilson's suggestions act as a blueprint for both men and women who are seeking what to do with themselves - and their time - when they reach retirement.

For fans of David Sedaris and Nora Ephron, here is a humorous, irreverent, and poignant look at the gifts, stereotypes, and inevitable challenges of aging, based on the wildly popular New York Times essay from award-winning journalist Steven Petrow. Soon after his 50th birthday, Steven Petrow began assembling a list of “things I won’t do when I get old”—mostly a catalog of all the things he thought his then 70-something year old parents were doing wrong. That list, which included “You won’t have to shout at me that I’m deaf,” and “I won’t blame the family dog for my incontinence,” became the basis of this rousing collection of do’s and don’ts, wills and won’ts that is equal parts hilarious, honest, and practical. The fact is, we don’t want to age the way previous generations did. “Old people” hoard. They bore relatives—and strangers—with tales of their aches and pains. They insist on driving long after they’ve become a danger to others (and themselves). They eat dinner at 4pm. They swear they don’t need a cane or walker (and guess what happens next). They never, ever apologize. But there is another way . . . In Stupid Things I Won’t Do When I Get Old, Petrow candidly addresses the fears, frustrations, and stereotypes that accompany aging. He offers a blueprint for the new old age, and an understanding that aging and illness are not the same. As he writes, “I meant the list to serve as a pointed reminder—to me—to make different choices when I eventually cross the threshold to ‘old.’” Getting older is a privilege. This essential guide reveals how to do it with grace, wisdom, humor, and hope. And without hoarding.

Aging is a journey inevitable for everyone. However, a positive outlook on the aging process focuses your mindset on happiness and satisfaction despite the negative challenges society places on growing old. Positive aging is holistic, meaning your physical, mental and spiritual wellness plays a crucial part in aging well. you'll learn how to embrace this chapter of your life as a new beginning that can open up a world filled with joy and happiness. This book shares personal experience of getting older, staying positive, and preparing for the challenges ahead and helps you know secret of staying young when growing older You will find: * secrets for staying young and healthy, * advice on using makeup and clothing to look younger and feel better * why you're never too old for sex * ideas for staying connected in a changing world, * tips for maintaining a positive outlook as you age

The acclaimed author of What's Worth Knowing reveals the truth about aging: Old age often offers a richer, better, and more self-assured life than youth. From our earliest lives, we are told that our youth will be the best time of our lives-that the energy and vitality of youth are the most important qualities a person can possess, and that everything that comes after will be a sad decline. But in reality, says Wendy Lustbader, youth is not the golden era it is often made out to be. For many, it is a time riddled with anxiety, angst, confusion, and the torture of uncertainty. Conversely, the media often feeds us a vision of growing older as a journey of defeat and diminishment. They are dead wrong. As Lustbader counters, "Life gets better as we get older, on all levels except the physical." Life Gets Better is not a precious or whimsical tome on the quirky wisdom of the elderly. Lustbader-who has worked for several decades as a social worker specializing in aging issues-conducted firsthand research with aging and elderly people in all walks of life, and she found that they overwhelmingly spoke of the mental and emotional richness they have drawn from aging. Lustbader discovered that rather than experiencing a decline from youth, aging people were happier, more courageous, and more interested in being true to their inner selves than were young people. Life Gets Better examines through first-person stories, as well as Lustbader's own observations, how a lifetime of lessons learned can yield one of the most personally and emotionally fruitful periods of anyone's life. As an eighty-six-year-old who contributed her story to the book noted, "For me, being old is the reward for outlasting all the big and little problems that happen to all of us along life's pathway." The collected stories in Life Gets Better provide a hopeful corrective to the fear of aging aggressively instilled in us by the media. Don't dread the future: The best years of our lives just may be ahead.

Think young! The secret to staying young while growing old is to think young. A must read for all those who do not want to grow old - for being young or old has nothing to do with age. It's a mental thing. Henry Ford says "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young." In this work of personal development you will learn the need for a big attitude as you advance in years. Positive thinking will help pave the way for your future and you will discover motivational strategies that will help you keep a young mind. As you learn about developing the right mind set you will explore how to have new beginnings, take on fresh challenges, break new boundaries, have new experiences, develop new friendships, have successful relationships and awaken again some of the fearlessness of youth. You don't have to become old, so discover some of the solutions for having an ageless mind.

When people grow old, they have to face many problems in life especially when they retire from service or business. How can they triumph over the day-to-day problems of old age? That’s what this book deals with ,and may be an eye-opener for many such people, inspiring them to make a 360-degree change in their lives. The book also deals with longevity of life. If proper care is taken right from young age regarding the health, thinking, environment and happiness index, then it will be easy to increase the longevity of life subject to precautions. Young people can begin and take charge of their lives by going through proper care of their body and mind which will surely benefit them in old age. They can take precautions right from the beginning and lead a peaceful, happy healthy and long life. The book deals with more of Do’s rather than Don’ts. With best wishes to the readers.

Growing Old But Staying Young by Jerome Pollack