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A Family Guide To Caring For Persons With Alzheimer Disease And Memory Loss In Later Life

BY NANCY MACE, PETER RABINS
This classic family guide to caring for persons with Alzheimer's disease, related dementia, and memory loss in later life is now available in this "user-friendly", oversized mass market edition. The book is quite comprehensive and is endorsed by the Alzheimer Disease And Related Disorders Association Of America.

Wellness Central 2006 558 PP. Paper

$9.99 (low stock)

At Home With Friends

A History Of Friends Homes In Greensboro, North Carolina

BY DAVID STANFIELD
A history of Friends Homes in Greensboro NC: The first fifty years.

2006 123 PP. Paper

$12.00 (low stock)

From Age-ing To Sage-ing

A Profound New Vision Of Growing Older

BY ZALMAN SCHACHTER-SHALOMI AND RONALD S. MILLER
AVAILABLE AGAIN! "Schachter-Shalomi, a rabbi dreading retirement, realized that he must `recontextualize aging as the anticipated fulfillment of life, not its inevitable decline.' So he devised Spiritual Eldering-a social activism, awareness, and mentoring program. The rabbi provides instructions on selecting people to mentor and how to go about doing so. He supplies advice on helping individuals, family, community, and the planet." Denise Perry Donavin for Booklist

TimeWarner 1997 303 PP. Paper

$14.95 (low stock)

The Making Of An Elder Culture

Reflections On The Future Of America's Most Audacious Generation

BY THEODORE ROSZAK
The author, a very early proponent of a green and sustainable future says that the counter culture hippies of the 60's can now in their retirement be more effective agents for change. Though elder culture is not a new idea to Quakers! Part demographic study, part history; part critique and part appeal, an interesting tome.

New Society Press 2009 320 PP. Paper

$18.95 (low stock)

The Measure Of My Days

One Woman's Vivid, Enduring,celebration Of Life And Aging.

BY FLORIDA SCOTT - MAXWELL
Playwright and Jungian analyst Florida Scott-Maxwell explores the unique predicament of one's later years: when one feels both cut off from the past and out of step with the present; when the body rebels at activity but the mind becomes more passionate than ever. I believe she was a regular attender at quaker Meetings during the time she lived in Britain.

Penguin 1968 150 PP. Paper

$14.00 (low stock)

On Retiring To Kendal (and Beyond)

A Literary Excursion - Php 368

BY PETER BIEN
Retiring to Kendal is obviously one's final move before "and beyond." This leads the author to wonder whether death is an unmitigated calamity. Would it be better to live forever? Not, presumably, if debility were included. But what about eternal youthfulness and health? Guided by literary passages from Homer and Shakespeare to Kazantzakis and Cavafy, the author concludes, strangely, that death actually enhances life rather than negating it.

Pendle Hill 2003 27 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

This Is Who I Am

Listening With Older Friends

BY THE COMMITTEE ON ELDERSHIP AND OVERSIGHT OF BRITAIN YEARLY MEETING
This book on spirituality and aging explores the wider implications of the entry into old age -- theological, spiritual, emotional, sociological. It is also a practical handbook to give guidance and confidence to Friends and meetings wanting to tackle a perceived gap in care of one another. This book presents a vision of what old age does and can contain, in its desolation and its richness, and encourages Friends in practical ways to step into that landscape, with all its discomforts, surprises and true riches.

Britain Yearly Meeting 2003 64PP Paper

$10.00 (backorder)

Without Nightfall Upon The Spirit

Php 311

BY MARY MORRISON
"To preside over the disintegration of one's own body, looking on as sight and hearing, strength, speed, and short-term memory deteriorate, calls for a heroism that is no less impressive for being quiet and patient.. Anyone who watches aging closely and with a sympathetic eye can sometimes be lost in admiration for the aging and their gallantry. Where does this gallantry come from? How are we going to find it in ourselves as we need it?" asks the author in her introduction. This essay on aging will help us recognize the source of dignity and ways to nurture the integrity of aging.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1994 31 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

You Must Live A Dying Life

Reflections On Human Mortality And The Spiritual Life

BY TOM GATES
"I want to explore with you the subject of death: how our mortality is the central issue in our spiritual lives, at one and the same time a stumbling block and an invitation to transformation; how our mortality isolates us, from one another and from God, but at the same time unites us, with all humanity and with the divine mystery that is both our source and our destiny; and how it is that caring for the dying among us can open us as perhaps nothing else to this mystery and transformation." - the author

Beacon Hill Friends House 2007 40 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

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