Your Golden Years Your Golden Challenge

This book informs the reader of the major preventive health recommendations now practiced by the medical community. Prior to the middle of the last century medical care was primarily episodic. Patients did not see their doctor until they were acutely ill. Now, the advances in medical knowledge of disease processes and the availability of improved diagnostic techniques and treatments have focused medical practice on the prevention of disease. In other words, before the occurrence of a heart attack, stroke, diabetes, and even cancer, there are detectable underlying disorders which, when discovered and treated early, can prevent life limiting disease. Four underlying disorders, namely, high blood pressure, abnormal blood lipids, elevated blood sugar and overweight are major risk factors for the chronic diseases. Five chronic diseases, namely, coronary artery disease, cancer, lung disease, stroke and diabetes are responsible for 80% of deaths in the American population. This book presents a preventive care plan in seven steps designed to counter these risk factors and diseases, and extend both the length and quality of life. The seven steps are discussed as separate chapters: Exercise, Weight, Health Evaluation, Non-prescription Agents, A Medical Approach, A Surgical Approach and Preventive-Preventive Care. Doctors have learned that the chronic diseases associated with aging usually do not start in older age, but often are present by middle age and younger. Then, changes in lifestyle and early treatment to control the known risk factors and underlying disorders are most effective in extending both the length and quality of life. This book will provide pertinent medical information for the reader to embrace a golden challenge of preventive care to know and to fully enjoy the rewarding golden years ahead.

Polish Your Golden Years is filled with wonderful facts, tips and techniques on growing older with a positive, passionate outlook on life. This book will teach you the key elements of maintaining a healthy lifestyle, as well as focusing on areas such as: life after retirement managing chronic disease obtaining health care and medication coping with the loss of a loved one controlling your stress achieving wellness through exercise and nutrition This easy-to-read book is insightful, informative and perhaps the best resource for seniors living independently or with assistance. Written by a Registered Nurse with over 52 years of nursing experience, Polish Your Golden Years is a must read for seniors everywhere. Carol J. Burdette is a retired Registered Nurse and author of 26 Days to Wellness. She has taken care of hundreds of elderly patients, including her late husband, Edward, and wishes to continue helping people live a better quality of life through her books. Carol grew up in Glens Falls, New York, and now lives in Vero Beach, Florida. Publisher's website: http: //www.eloquentbooks.com/PolishYourGoldenYears.htm

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Thanks to advances in technology, medicine, Social Security, and Medicare, old age for many Americans is characterized by comfortable retirement, good health, and fulfilling relationships. But there are also millions of people over 65 who struggle with poverty, chronic illness, unsafe housing, social isolation, and mistreatment by their caretakers. What accounts for these disparities among older adults? Sociologist Deborah Carr’s Golden Years? draws insights from multiple disciplines to illuminate the complex ways that socioeconomic status, race, and gender shape the nearly every aspect of older adults’ lives. By focusing on an often-invisible group of vulnerable elders, Golden Years? reveals that disadvantages accumulate across the life course and can diminish the well-being of many. Carr connects research in sociology, psychology, epidemiology, gerontology, and other fields to explore the well-being of older adults. On many indicators of physical health, such as propensity for heart disease or cancer, black seniors fare worse than whites due to lifetimes of exposure to stressors such as economic hardships and racial discrimination and diminished access to health care. In terms of mental health, Carr finds that older women are at higher risk of depression and anxiety than men, yet older men are especially vulnerable to suicide, a result of complex factors including the rigid masculinity expectations placed on this generation of men. Carr finds that older adults’ physical and mental health are also closely associated with their social networks and the neighborhoods in which they live. Even though strong relationships with spouses, families, and friends can moderate some of the health declines associated with aging, women—and especially women of color—are more likely than men to live alone and often cannot afford home health care services, a combination that can be isolating and even fatal. Finally, social inequalities affect the process of dying itself, with white and affluent seniors in a better position to convey their end-of-life preferences and use hospice or palliative care than their disadvantaged peers. Carr cautions that rising economic inequality, the lingering impact of the Great Recession, and escalating rates of obesity and opioid addiction, among other factors, may contribute to even greater disparities between the haves and the have-nots in future cohorts of older adults. She concludes that policies, such as income supplements for the poorest older adults, expanded paid family leave, and universal health care could ameliorate or even reverse some disparities. A comprehensive analysis of the causes and consequences of later-life inequalities, Golden Years? demonstrates the importance of increased awareness, strong public initiatives, and creative community-based programs in ensuring that all Americans have an opportunity to age well.

Growing older sucks. The alternative is to die younger. So, make the best and the most of your remaining years; turn them into the golden years of your life in spite of any frailty and adversity you may be facing. Remember, life is a task-master: it teaches you not only how to survive in any challenging circumstance but also how to live well, especially in your golden years. Come to grips with the reality of death, which is a leveler-of-man. It makes you only more appreciative of life, as well as more proactive to live a meaningful and purposeful life in your golden years. Use Santa Claus as your role model to start believing in yourself, developing the right mindset of happy and successful aging, and then acting appropriately and positively. Santa Claus may not be a magic-bullet solution to all your life problems and challenges, but he certainly may open unexpected doors for you in your golden years. Naturally, you cannot do everything, but you can do something. So, do well the something that you can still do. The wisdom is to do a great deal more with a great deal less that you now have. The wisdom of this book may help you renew and enhance yourself with hope and optimism, showing you a possible and realistic path to a better outcome despite all the challenges, obstacles, and problems you may encounter in your golden years. Your future is always unknown and unknowable, but it is your readiness to get new information and to use your new experiences to reassess your current situation that provides a light at the end of the tunnel. Wake up from your nightmare and live a life that your deserve in your golden years. Embark on a journey of self-discovery of the direction, meaning, and purpose of your life. Re-discover your connection to others and, more importantly, to the Creator. With wisdom in aging and living, there is nothing to fear about tomorrow. Look forward to tomorrow and all the golden days yet to come. Be like Santa Claus! This 252-page book has everything you need to know about physical frailty, vision impairment, breathing problems, memory loss, as well as health, money, death, and bereavement issues. This is a comprehensive book on the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of the wisdom in successful aging in the golden years. It provides you with a wealth of information on the art of living well, instead of stereotyping yourself as old and decrepit. Look at your golden years as your rewards, and perceive yourself as desirable and deserving.

We call them the &‘ golden years' . Retirement these days can span 30-plus years, so we need to plan retirement as carefully as we plan other phases of our life that span three decades &– our career, raising and educating children, and buying and paying off our home. This book helps you make this plan. It looks at the lifestyle you want to achieve in retirement, how to keep your money working for you when you are not working and how to set your affairs in order for the later part of your life when you inevitably become less independent. Most importantly, it helps you navigate the multiple challenges that will arise, with the benefit of the experience supporting those who have been there before.Packed with case studies from a career in financial advice, as well as practical and actionable insights, this book will educate, inspire and give you peace of mind as you plan for, transition to and live your best life in retirement.

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