検索キーワード： 老年学

齢を取れば取るほど人は幸せになる「心筋梗塞も糖尿病も太っていたほうが長生きする」「糖尿病の治療がアルツハイマーを促進する」こんなことを言われたら、戸惑う人がほとんどだろう。

年齢による差別は許しません高齢者が幸せになれば、現役世代のくらしにも恩恵が!厚労省・製薬会社の壁をぶち破れ!

私もかつては死が恐ろしくて仕方なかった　小説家であり、また医師でもある著者は、これまでにも『日本人の死に時』『人間の死に方』『人はどう死ぬのか』など、死をテーマに著述を発表してきた。

定年後を不安に思う人は多い。「成果を上げたい」「他人に嫌われたくない・評価されたい」という現役時代の価値観に囚われると、自分で自分を不幸にしてしまう。

〈さびしい、苦しい〉老い方にさようなら!世界的な霊長類学者が教える、人生後半戦が「希望」となる考え方とは?・人間はなぜ“人生後半戦”が長いのか?・“老いるほど美しくなる”ゴリラに学ぶべきこと

著者が〝師〟と仰ぎ、野球だけでなく、生き方の土台にもなったという、中村天風、藤平光一。二人の先生の教えを観念論や理想論ではなく、自らがどのように実践してきたか、具体的にまとめた人生の指南書。

■先行きに不安を感じている中高年サラリーマンのための「自分のキャリアをお金に変えて、定年後もバリバリ稼ぐ」技術、大公開！

子どもがいなければ、いずれは“老後ひとり難民”に。入院できない!施設に入れない!死後は無縁仏に!?準備不足な“おひとりさま”の悲惨な末路。世はおひとりさまブームで、独身人口は増え続けるばかり。だが、そのまま老後を迎えて本当に大丈夫だろうか?

カネさえあれば幸せに死ねるのか――。入居金3億円超え。至れり尽くせりの生活を享受する超富裕層たち。彼らがたどり着いた「終の棲家」は桃源郷か、姥捨て山か。

From a leading expert on longevity, an urgent call for individuals, institutions, and society to adapt to the reality of living longer lives Thanks to increases in life expectancy, we can now expect to live for a long time. Most of us would welcome an extra day in the week, so why do so many of...

What are we going to do with those 20 or 30 years we didn’t expect? Due to unfounded fears of unhappiness and regret, many intelligent, otherwise rational people, even into their 40s and 50s, are so convinced that old age is a time of misery that they simply deny any other outcome and refuse to plan their own destiny. This optimistic and highly informative guide to smart aging will detail for listeners the steps they need to take to ensure that long life becomes synonymous with good life.

In the 1960s Ram Dass was a Harvard professor who turned to Eastern religion to answer the questions troubling his generation. He shared his story in the landmark classic, Be Here Now, which instantly captured the spiritual longings of his contemporaries. In Still Here, Ram Dass once again brings understanding, common sense, and reassurance for those of us facing the final season of life.

More than 1,000 extraordinary Americans share their stories and the wisdom they have gained on living, loving, and finding happiness. After a chance encounter with an extraordinary 90-year-old woman, renowned gerontologist Karl Pillemer began to wonder what older people know about life that the rest of us don't. His quest led him to interview more than one thousand Americans over the age of 65 to seek their counsel on all the big issues- children, marriage, money, career, aging.

Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school - in her 60s - to earn a BFA and MFA in painting. In Old in Art School, she travels from her beloved Newark to the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design; finds meaning in the artists she loves, even as she comes to understand how they may be undervalued; and struggles with the unstable balance between the pursuit of art and the inevitable, sometimes painful, demands of a life fully lived.

In his long career, eminent psychotherapist and author Irvin Yalom has pressed his patients and readers to grapple with life's two greatest challenges: that we all must die, and that each of us is responsible for leading a life worth living. In Creatures of a Day, he and his patients confront the difficulty of these challenges. Although these people have come to Yalom seeking relief, recognition, or meaning, they discover that such things are rarely found in the places where we think to look.

One of Elle's Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2024 A personal memoir in which Lyn Slater, known on Instagram as “Accidental Icon,” brings her characteristic style, optimism, forward-thinking, and rules-are-meant-to-be-broken attitude to the question of how to live boldly at any age...

You scream, but no one hears you. The coffin swallows every sound. The soil presses down, heavy and final. Your chest burns, your arms cannot rise, your legs cannot move. Death is not a quiet sleep — it is a prison without escape. For centuries, people have feared one fate above all others: being buried alive. From ancient myths and medieval plagues to safety coffins, graveyard bells, and real-life cases of the “dead” awakening beneath the earth, this book uncovers the chilling history of premature burial. Step into the shadows of folklore, superstition, and science.

Aging with autism, ADHD, or sensory differences brings unique challenges, and this guide shows how to meet them with confidence.

We are in the midst of a healthspan revolution that will enable us to live vitally beyond 100 years old. Advanced diagnostics are now able to catch any disease at inception, while advanced therapies in clinical trials have the potential to reverse disease while also slowing, stopping, and potentially even reversing aging.

A deeply personal investigation into the current state of eldercare and what it means to grow old in America Unlike many other cultures, our collective stance toward older people in the United States has long been one of casual avoidance and neglect. This attitude became brutally clear during...