When my grandmother passes and leaves her huge property to me, we decide to open an old age home for those fit enough to be on their own, but who need help with remembering their medicines or just want company. We also start looking after children and they work so well together - the aged and pre-school children!

Everyone has a choice about how he or she defines "old," and now readers can find some of the best things ever said about the subject in Old Age is Always 15 Years Older Than I Am. This quotation collection is wise and warm, witty and wild. It includes everything from President James A. Garfield's thoughts on the spirit-and wrinkles-to Bill Cosby's musings on senility. Everyone has something to say about aging, and this book delivers the wisdom of...

Susan Jacoby, an unsparing chronicler of unreason in American culture, now offers an impassioned, tough-minded critique of the myth that a radically new old age—unmarred by physical or mental deterioration, financial problems, or intimate loneliness—awaits the huge baby boom generation. Combining historical, social, and economic analysis with personal experiences of love and loss, Jacoby turns a caustic eye not only on the modern fiction

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One of the country's leading literary scholars explores the fascinating question of why some people's creative talents flourish with age while others' fade. America grows older yet stays focused on its young. Whatever hill we try to climb, we're "over" it by fifty and should that hill involve entertainment or athletics we're finished long before. And if younger is better, it doesn't appear that youngest is best: we want our teachers, doctors, generals,...

"One of the nation's top art critics shows how six great artists made old age a time of triumph by producing the greatest work of their long careers-and, in some cases, changing the course of art history"--

It's summertime, and Mr. Putter decides to join the Yankee Doodle Dandies baseball team. He can still catch those fly balls, but will his creakiy knees cooperate when it's time to pick up those ground balls? With a little help from Mrs. Teaberry's good dog, Zeke, anything is possible from the outfield!

Dr. Joseph Murphy has been acclaimed as a major figure in the human potential movement, the spiritual heir to writers like James Allen, Dale Carnegie, Napoleon Hill, and Norman Vincent Peale, and a precursor and inspirer of contemporary motivational writers and speakers like Tony Robbins, Zig Ziglar, and Earl Nightingale. He changed the lives of people all over the world and was one of the best-selling authors of the mid-20th century. Dr. Murphy...

"Written with love, told with joy. Very easy to enjoy."--Fredrik Backman, author of A Man Called Ove For fans of The Little Paris Bookshop and The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared comes a heartwarming debut about 96-year-old Doris, who writes down the memories of her eventful life as she pages through her decades-old address book. But the most profound moment of her life is still to come . . . Meet Doris, a 96-year-old woman...

Mr. Putter gets an old cat to share his life with him.

Mr. Putter knows what he likes, and dancing is not on the list. But his neighbor, Mrs. Teaberry, talks Mr. Putter into coming along for an evening at the Crystal Ballroom, along with fine cat Tabby and good dog Zeke, of course. The ballroom is full of sparkles - and suprises. What a wonder!