The Contented Retirement By Stephen McAdam Size: 234mm x 156 mm Pages: 260 Binding: Hardback ISBN: 1-905226-76-4 Buy this title for £13.99

The Contented Retirement is written for readers who are about to retire, or are already retired, and wish to be pleasantly occupied with a mind pastime.  It offers a medley of intelligent interests for all ages and tastes to mention but a few: - Look back at the origins of mankind and some of the great prehistoric civilizations, and visit archaeological sites in exotic places. - Meet new faces to play bridge, chess or Go, an ancient and exciting Asiatic board game. - Trace your roots and widen family links to build your family tree. - Take on computer skills to know more, and communicate with friends, via the internet. MelroseBooks.com  http://www.melrosebooks.com/detail.php?isbn=1905226764#

 

SHAPING UP IS FOR LIFE, NOT JUST FOR SUMMER,

say TV Doctor Alan Maryon Davis & Age Concern

 

Dr Alan's new book – Feeling Good!, Easy Steps to Staying Healthy is published by Age Concern and peppered with quirkily charming illustrations by Quentin Blake. This is a practical, fun-to-read guide that collapses myths about healthy living in later life; provides tips and advice; supplies simple step-by-step home exercise programmes; and summarises exactly what you need to do leaving you with no excuses!

 

He suggests small lifestyle changes in all of the following areas:

· Being more active – and how to get started

· Eating well – know your antioxidants from your anti-depressants

· Stressing less – how to overcome the stresses of relationship worries, money problems, health concerns, bereavement

· Playing safe – the truth about smoking, alcohol, travel and sex

 

Feeling Good! by Dr Alan Maryon Davis costs £9.99 and is available from all good bookshops or direct from the publisher at Age Concern Books (Tel: 0870 44 22 120 / Web: www.ageconcern.org.uk/bookshop). Title: Feeling Good! Subtitle: Easy steps to staying healthy Author: Dr Alan Maryon Davis ISBN: 978-0-86242-423-7 Price: £9.99 Binding: Paperback

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http://www.niace.org.uk/Publications/R/reminiscence.asp Sarah Housden ISBN: 978 1 86201 248 6 May 2007 £9.95   (US$20.00  €17.00) [excludes P&P] This is an irreplaceable guide to ways of using learners’ personal memories as a resource in learning; a source of knowledge, ideas and experiences for tutors and learners to draw on. Read a sample chapter here [PDF] It is a compendium of good practice for tutors, other professionals and carers who are using older people’s memory work in a learning context. It includes many examples of projects and learning situations where, beginning with the sharing of memories, older people have gone on to develop skills in forming and sustaining relationships, oral and written communication, arts and crafts and literacy, and the use of modern information technology.

The Essential Carer's Guide

By Mary Jordan. Foreword by Philip Wroughton, Vice President of the Princess Royal Trust for Carers

240 pp ?14.99

ISBN: 1-905140-07-X

Launched in collaboration with the Princess Royal Trust for Carers www.carers.org

A practical guide for carers of elderly and disabled relatives and friends, bringing together the many aspects (physical, emotional, social and financial) that most carers struggle to discover for themselves. Illustrated throughout with case histories and personal experiences, the book emphasises that every relationship between carer and cared-for is different.

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Paupers Progress By Joe Harris General Secretary of NPC (110pp with illustrations) Price ?3.50 NPC Order Form  Paupers Progress charts the exclusion and degradation of older people over the last seven centuries and, in doing so, exposes the roots of the present paternalistic and demeaning attitudes towards older people and the inadequacies of public pensions. The case for public risk pooling for old age was made in Britain as early as the Thirteenth Century and periodically reiterated over the years. As Joe Harris shows, older people were identified as the deserving poor in the Nineteenth Century, partly due to the work of Charles Booth, and then ensured the long campaign for a decent pension. The campaign continued and, indeed, still does today. Alan Walker Professor of Social Policy and Social Gerontology University of Sheffield Great book - A must read for everyone - John Lynch of Seniors Network This is the story of Grandparents Apart Groups campaign and of the injustices suffered by families and how all of this affects children. Easy to read and understand without all the legal jargon that puts you off with references to this and that and big words like huge. (Jimmy doesn't know big words anyway). It is called 'Grandparents Speak Out For Vulnerable Children'. The price has been kept to a minimum as they are more interested in highlighting the problem than making money. ?4.00p + UK P&P ?1.00. Overseas P&P ?2.00.  To- G.A.S.H. Scotland, 22 Alness Crescent, Glasgow, G52 1PJ.     See their new forum http://www.grandparentsapart.co.uk/forum/ Mention   Seniors Network Sidney! Sidney! Sidney! By Harriet May Savitz Seventeen-year-old Lou walks into his bedroom one day and decides he doesnt want to leave. With four years of college looming ahead, a world out of control, and his mom about to sell SeaView, the boarding house they own and live in, he wants to avoid life. In short, everything that is outside of his room is now the enemy Our price: $9.95 Format: Paperback Size : 6 x 9 Pages: 102 ISBN: 0-595-40610-6 Published: Sep-2006 Other Formats: Adobe eBook International orders: Call 00-1-402-323-7800 Wheelchair Champions: A History of Wheelchair Sports By Harriet May Savitz Our price: $12.95 Format: Paperback Size : 5.5 x 8.5 Pages: 134 ISBN: 0-595-38522-2 Published: Apr-2006 The history of wheelchair sports in the U.S. is well told in Wheelchair Champions This would be exciting and informative enough if it simply described the growth of organized sports for the handicapped or described sports careers of men and women who are paraplegics and it does. What it adds is a great deal of information about attitudes toward the handicapped and facts about their capabilities. Bulletin Center for Childrens Books