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
- 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...
- Author:Kobayashi, ErikaSummary:
Nine years after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster, Japan is preparing for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. An unnamed narrator wakes up in a cold, sterile room, unable to recall her past. Across the country, the elderly begin...
- 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...
- Author:Gray Smith, MoniqueSummary:
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:Fox, PhoebeSummary:
Marcie Malone didn't think she was either, but when she drives from Georgia to the southwestern shore of Florida without a plan and wakes up in a stranger's home, she doesn't seem to know anymore. Despondent and...
- 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:Havelange, JoanSummary:
The trouble with funerals is that there are too many of them. Mabel’s mother is convinced there is something nefarious going on at the senior’s condo Gravenhurst Manor. She convinces her daughter to look into the death of her best...
- 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:Griffiths, EllySummary:
Detective Sergeant Harbinder Kaur sees nothing out of the ordinary in the death of a ninety-year-old woman with a heart condition. But the woman's caretaker, Natalka, had a reason to be at the police station: while clearing out...
- 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:McKinnon, NeilSummary:
Eighty-year-old Alberto Camelo has searched for love in all the wrong places. Nevertheless, he claims that his experiences have made him the world’s greatest lover. This claim is belied by his ancient neighbour and closest friend...
- 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...
- Author:Williams, Mark E.Summary:
In The Art and Science of Aging Well, Mark E. Williams, MD, discusses the remarkable advances that medical science has made in the field of aging and the steps that people may take to enhance their lives as they age.
- 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...
- Author:Jonasson, JonasSummary:
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...
- 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...
- Author:Vingoe, MarySummary:
Inspired by a quote from the I Ching about how we respond to tragedy - "Some weep, some blow upon flutes" - Mary Vingoe's play is the story of Costas, an elderly Greek shoe repairman whose wife Elena suffers from dementia...
- 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...