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A personal change expert offers an exceptional guide to navigating a major life transition–retirement. He provides an upbeat listening experience–with the help of uncredited voice pros who ask questions and give headlines and quotes. Selman’s clear, energetic voice gives the program real motivational juice. Offering more than financial advice, he says that retirement is both an end and a beginning and that paying attention to the psychological and social parts of the change will make it more satisfying. Unrealized work ambitions, regrets, resentments, and unhappy marriages all can keep us from retiring peacefully if we don’t address these issues. Selman’s diagnostic questions and detailed help in creating a retirement road map make this one of the most useful guides ever in this brief format. Listen to a sample from the book . . .

As you age, you’ll find you need more of some nutrients and less of others. Depending on health conditions and family history, you may want to supplement your diet with vitamins, remove certain foods completely, or increase others. Your diet is greatly impacted by several factors, one of them being a change in body composition. During the later years in life, the body will lose bone and muscle and gain fat because of hormonal changes.

If you want to stay sharp well into your eighties and nineties, you need to be consistently and actively using your brain. By using your brain, I don’t mean a mental debate on what TV show to watch tonight, but rather a true challenge that keeps it functioning at its best.

Jeannie Keenan of My Health Care Manager shares ideas on how to hold an effective family meeting.

Inevitably aging brings up the question of nursing homes and home care. Someone with a variety of ailments will need day-to-day help with basic living. If a parent’s physical condition worsens, their children find that they are increasingly taking on the responsibility of caring for their elderly parent. At some point a majority of these children realize that they can no longer take care of the parent–at least not by themselves. At this point a decision has to be made whether to place their loved one in a nursing home or bring in a home nurse to provide care.

As people age, they often develop allergies or asthmatic symptoms. Sometimes this is due to sensitivity to indoor air pollutants like pet dander, off gassing from furniture, and other synthetics in the home. Symptoms can range from mild headaches and rashes to breathing problems that require medication. Despite being a common occurrence, many individuals are at a loss as to what to do.