Are you ready to live a long time, or do you dread it? Recent medical advances mean we could live longer, but doesn’t guarantee the quality of that life. In the words of one senior, "We’re not living longer, we’re dying longer." The...
Older people
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Author:Green, LyndsaySummary: -
Author:Spafford-Fitz, KarenSummary:Brett is president of her school's Unity Club. When a new group home for at-risk youth opens in the neighborhood, Brett becomes friends with Jude, one of the boys who lives at the home. After a series of acts of vandalism, the...
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Author:Borins Ash, IreneSummary:Irene Borins Ash captures the vitality of senior citizens in a series of photographs with biographical sketches and life philosophies. The fifty people featured represent a cross-section of the population, ranging from the famous to the...
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Author:Gray Smith, Monique, Thrush, MichelleSummary:Winner of the 2019-20 First Nation Communities READ Indigenous Literature Award. An unexpected journey can be powerful medicine. When Tilly receives an invitation to help drive eight elders on their ultimate bucket list road trip to...
- Author:Jarvis, Muriel, Vandergoot, Mary EllenSummary:
Health care has changed a great deal since Muriel Jarvis was a young nurse in Saskatoon in the 1940s; nursing has been transformed, and the status of women revolutionized. The inspiring story of a girl from Kenaston, Saskatchewan, who...
- Author:Weiss, Martin D.Summary:
This examines investments and health care, proposing ways to protect and increase a financial portfolio through careful observations and decisions. Weiss offers five main lessons to better understand the stock market: watch for hidden...
- Author:Osman, RichardSummary:
"A little beacon of pleasure in the midst of the gloom...SUCH FUN!" —Kate Atkinson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Sky Four septuagenarians with a few tricks up their sleeves A female cop with her first big...
- Author:Schurman, BradleySummary:
A demographic futurist explains the coming Super Age--when there will be more people older than sixty-five than those under the age of eighteen--and explores what it could mean for our collective future.
- Author:Osman, RichardSummary:
An instant New York Times bestseller! The second gripping novel in the New York Times bestselling Thursday Murder Club series, soon to be a major motion picture from Steven Spielberg at Amblin Entertainment. "It's taken a mere...
- Author:Banks, LucySummary:
Kester and Ribero's team of inept supernatural investigators are back again. But this time, the stakes have been raised. Hrschni, a powerful daemon, together with the rest of the Thelemites, are hellbent on bringing spirits back to...
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Author:Jonasson, JonasSummary:It all begins with a hot air balloon trip and three bottles of champagne. Allan and Julius are ready for some spectacular views, but they're not expecting to land in the sea and be rescued by a North Korean ship carrying contraband...
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After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last stop. The only problem is that he's still in good health-and tomorrow is his hundredth birthday. A big celebration is in the...
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Author:Martin, C. K. KellySummary:Naomi is in Dublin, Ireland, visiting her grandparents as her thirteenth birthday approaches. Adult residents of Ireland have begun losing their memories as the result of a virus that has hit the country, causing many to wander the...
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Author:Butala, SharonSummary:Writing at the top of her game, Sharon Butala returns to the short story in this astounding new collection. In Butala’s world, the season of fury and wonder is the season of old age. The stories in this book are the stories of women who...
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Author:Watson, CristySummary:Fourteen-year-old Roonie loves hip-hop almost as much as she loves her grandmother. She cannot wait to compete in her school's dance competition. But as her grandmother's health deteriorates, Roonie becomes more and more...
- Author:Tatlock, Ann.Summary:
11-year-old Rosalind finds 70-year-old Tillie on her front porch--again. Wanting to die in the place where she lived for half a century, Tillie continues leaving her senior living complex and finding her way "home." Annoyed at first,...
- Author:Rossiter, Nan ParsonSummary:
Maeve loves her job at a senior care center. Gage, who works with Maeve's brother-in-law, loves Maeve with all his heart. But as they grow closer, both sense they haven't been forthcoming about their pasts.
- Author:Public Legal Education Association of SaskatchewanSummary:
Please note: legislation affecting adults in retirement may vary significantly from province to province. If you are looking for this information for a province other than Saskatchewan, please contact...
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A collection of 101 of the best stories for seniors from Chicken Soup's library. Stories were written by seniors about their lives, adventures, etc., and by younger people about older family members or friends.
- Author:Public Legal Education Association of SaskatchewanSummary:
Please note: legislation affecting older adults may vary significantly from province to province. If you are looking for this information for a province other than Saskatchewan, please contact NNELS...
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