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What are we going to do now?: helping your parents in their senior years
By William Molloy. 1996
Geriatrician William Molloy provides a practical guide for adult children who face the difficulties of caring for elderly parents. He…
describes the physical changes which accompany aging, and deals with sexuality, health, independence, loneliness, and the fear of being institutionalized. He also discusses relationships and communication between the generations, and how to select a retirement or nursing facility. 1996.Votre retraite crie au secours (Affaires plus)
By Hélène Gagné. 2009
Ne vous faites plus d'illusions : vous ne dépenserez pas moins à la retraite que maintenant, votre maison ne sera…
pas votre ultime refuge financier, votre fonds de pension sera peut-être moins généreux que vous ne le pensez, vos rentes provenant des régimes publics risquent d'être insuffisantes, sans compter que les gouvernements n'auront pas les moyens de payer pour vos soins de santé. Pourtant, une retraite confortable est encore possible, assure Hélène Gagné. Il faut regarder les choses en face, établir ses objectifs et passer à l'action sans plus attendre. 2009.Vive les vieux!: ils n'ont jamais été aussi jeunes!
By Jacques Salomé, Martine Lagardette. 2004
Personnes âgées? Retraités? Vieux? Ils sont de plus en plus nombreux et nous, nous ne savons même pas comment les…
appeler! Pourtant, ce sont nos parents, nos grands-parents...ils nous disent ce que nous serons demain. Et que nous refusons de regarder en face par peur de vieillir. Ce livre nous montre nos anciens comme on ne les voit jamais. Drôles, émouvants, attachants... En un mot: vivants! 2004.Vieillir, un privilège
By Florian Chrétien. 1992
"Vieillir, un privilège" se présente comme un livre de méditation, un recueil de réflexions sur les différents aspects du vieillissement.…
L'auteur, lui-même professeur à la retraite, partage avec nous "sa vision du bel âge et sa conception de la retraite". c1992.Vieillir au masculin: accepter le passage du temps
By Hubert De Ravinel. 1997
Voici un livre plain de témoignages vivifiants et stimulants sur le fait de "vieillir au masculin." Selon l'auteur, il s'agit…
"d'une période de vie féconde et créatrice ou l'homme intérieur" pour enfin se libérer et s'épanouir. 1997.Up Ghost River: a chief's journey through the turbulent waters of Native history
By Edmund Metatawabin, Alexandra Shimo. 2014
A powerful, raw memoir about the abuse former First Nations chief Edmund Metatawabin endured in residential school in the 1960s.…
Even as Metatawabin built the trappings of a successful life, he was tormented by horrific memories. In seeking healing, Metatawabin travelled to southern Alberta. There he learned from elders, participated in native cultural training workshops that emphasize the holistic approach to personhood, and finally faced his alcoholism and PTSD. Now his mission is to help the next generation of residential school survivors. Bestseller. Winner of the 2015 Speaker's Book Award. c2014.Too afraid to cry: Memoir Of A Stolen Childhood
By Ali Cobby Eckermann. 2012
A memoir that, in bare blunt prose and piercingly lyrical verse, gives witness to the human cost of policies that…
created the Stolen Generations of Indigenous people in Australia. It is a narrative of good and evil, terror and happiness, despair and courage. 2012.Toe rubber blues: mid-life thoughts on the prospects of aging
By Tom Allen. 1999
The warmth of the heart prevents your body from rusting: ageing without growing old
By Marie De Hennezel. 2011
The inevitable ageing process does not have to condemn us to solitude, suffering, degradation or dependency. In this meditation on…
ageing, Marie de Hennezel guides us through the true 'art of growing old'. 2011. Uniform title: Chaleur du coeur empêche nos corps de rouiller.The summer of a dormouse
By John Mortimer. 2001
In this bitter-sweet account of the onset of old age, John Mortimer's characteristic vivacity shines through as he lunches with…
the old lags and captains of industry at Wormwood Scrubs, contemplates Barbra Streisand's legs and begins to suffer from the afflictions that cast down his father at a similar age. 2001.The shoe boy
By Duncan McCue. 2016
A memoir of McCue's five months in a hunting cabin with a James Bay Cree family. McCue is Anishinaabe, a…
member of the Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation in southern Ontario. He renders a beautiful sketch of the landscape and culture of the Cree, a nation still recovering from the massive James Bay hydroelectric project of the ‘70s. Frank, funny and evocative, he entwines the challenges of identity for First Nations youth, the sexual frustration and hopeful confusion of the teenage years, and the realities of living in an enduring state of culture shock. 2016.Six million people in the UK, often unnoticed by the rest of us, provide unpaid care for disabled or elderly…
relatives, friends or neighbours. Their job is long, lonely and hard, yet there is limited support and no formal training. As a result, carers suffer frequent damage to physical and mental health. This book is written for them - and also for the rest of us who don't know what being a carer is all about. The book airs such topics as sex, thoughts of murder, and dealing with the responses of friends and officials who fail to understand. 2006.The scalpel and the silver bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine And Traditional Healing
By Lori Arviso Alvord, Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt. 1999
Raised on the reservation near Gallup, New Mexico, half-Navajo Alvord graduated from Dartmouth and then went to Stanford for her…
medical degree. She describes her career as the first Navajo woman surgeon and her belief that integrating tribal ways into traditional western medicine improves healing. 1999.The retirement time bomb: how to achieve financial independence in a changing world
By Gordon Pape. 2006
Financial expert Pape explains how to avoid a retirement crisis. Offers strategies for setting realistic goals that will help achieve…
financial security for retirement. Provides advice on pension plans, RRSPs, and government benefits, and includes tax-saving strategies. 2006.The new old: how the boomers are changing everything---again
By David Cravit. 2008
With the oldest Baby Boomers turning 60, there is talk about what it will mean for welfare rates or health-care…
costs, but what no one is saying is that they are not the same as the older people of any previous generation. The Boomers' simple act of refusing to age is creating a revolution - in education, employment, housing, health and beauty and, of course, sex. Offers a sneak preview of an entirely new society that is coming - a society in which getting your gold watch at the age of 65 will simply mean that the first half of your life is over. Some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. c2008.The new retirement: how it will change our future
By Sherry S Cooper. 2008
Economist Cooper provides financial advice to baby boomers contemplating their retirement. But she also draws from the latest literature in…
psychology and gerontology to offer counsel on how boomers can live the second half of their adult lives productively and in good health. c2008.The memory doctor: fun, simple techniques to improve memory & boost your brain power
By Douglas J Mason, Spencer Xavier Smith. 2005
Do you have trouble finding your keys in the morning or forget what you were looking for altogether? When you…
meet new people, do you often forget their names-as soon as they leave the room? Don't panic! Just because you can't remember doesn't mean you're losing your mind-or even your memory. It's more likely that stress and information overload are making it harder for you to get information into your head in the first place. No matter what age we are, the way we remember things is a process: understand and pay more attention to the steps of the process, and your memory will improve. 2007.First-hand accounts of Indigenous people's encounters with colonialism are rare, but a daily diary that extends over fifty years is…
unparalleled. Based on a transcription of Arthur Wellington Clah's diaries, this book offers an account of a Tsimshian man who moved in both colonial and Aboriginal worlds. From his birth in 1831 to his death in 1916, Clah witnessed profound change: the arrival of traders, missionaries, and miners, and the establishment of industrial fisheries, wage labour, and reserves. 2011.The life and death of Anna Mae Aquash
By Johanna Brand. 1993
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, 1976. It took two autopsies and demands from family and friends to uncover that…
Canadian Indian activist Anna Mae Aquash had been killed by a bullet, fired execution-style into the back of her head. Was she murdered by the FBI, or by colleagues in the American Indian Movement? Some descriptions of violence. c1993.Avec le temps (Collection des idées & des hommes ; #8)
By Marguerite. 1980
Récit très simple qui vise à susciter ou stimuler la sympathie pour les personnes âgées. L'auteur a visité une vingtaine…
de centres d'accueil pour le troisième âge. c1980. (Collection des idées & des hommes ; 8)