検索キーワード： 老年学

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?

老いればさまざまな面で、肉体的および機能的な劣化が進みます。

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。

伊藤忠商事会長、そして民間人初の中国大使を務めた名経営者が８５歳の老境に入ったからこそ感じる、日々の味わい方と愉しみ方とは

■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！

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。

「孤独」「健康」「金（お金）」…老後不安の「3K」は「やりたいことだけ」やれば消える！「これまで、高齢者専門の精神科医として6000人を超える高齢者の方々を診てきて、つくづく感じるのは、老いには非常に大きな個人差があるという

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。

〈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

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。

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。

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!

老後の不安と欲望をエネルギーに、百花繚乱の「老い本」ワールド――そこに映し出される私たちの無意識とは？　名エッセイストが読み解く「老い」のニッポン精神史。

「人生の意味」から解放されれば楽になる 78歳の生物学者が語る "老いと死"の本当の話 「老い」を否定的に考える人も多いが、加齢に伴う身体の衰えや病気はそもそも「仕方のないこと」。

人口減少が進む一方で、総人口に占める65歳以上の割合が過去最高を更新し続ける日本。世界断トツの「超高齢社会」には課題が山積している。

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.

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.

Welcome to the dazzling new world of SuperAging, where everything you’ve been taught about aging is challenged. Getting older does not need to mean the end of accomplishment and growth. For SuperAgers, the period after age sixty-five can be one of the most productive and fulfilling times of life. SuperAging is already a reality for millions. But the science, business, and culture of aging have changed at such a rapid pace that they can be hard to keep up with. That’s where authors David Cravit and Larry Wolf can help.

How come I can never find my keys? Why don't I sleep as well as I used to? Why do my friends keep repeating the same stories? What can I do to keep my brain sharp? Scientists know. Brain Rules for Aging Well, by developmental molecular biologist Dr. John Medina, gives you the facts - and the prescription to age well - in his signature engaging style. With so many discoveries over the years, science is literally changing our minds about the optimal care and feeding of the brain. All of it is captivating. A great deal of it is unexpected.

In The AgeTech Revolution, Keren Etkin takes you on a journey to explore what the intersection of tech and aging looks like today. This book explores the changing face of aging in the 21st century, through the lens of the fast-paced digital transformation our society is going through. It goes into challenges of aging that are currently being tackled by technology—using the real-life stories of tech entrepreneurs and older adults. Etkin also provides a glimpse into the future, and what agetech could be like five, ten, fifteen years down the road.

Laursen's book relates the event-filled life of a brilliant and complex figure, including his victory over a possibly career-ending disability, his tumultuous second marriage, his struggles with the scientific establishment, and the fascinating story of the making of The Joy of Sex.

Avec justesse et pudeur, l’auteur décrit la maladie, l’admission en maison de retraite et la mort de sa mère. À son expérience de fils, s’associe une réflexion approfondie sur la vieillesse et la dépendance dans notre société.

Yoga instructor, nutrition expert, and healthy-living blogger Elise Marie Collins has compiled a comprehensive look at what "Super Agers" are doing to live long and prosper. Learn about movement at any age, brain fitness and memory maintenance, foods, vitamin and mineral content cues and clues, and what they do to promote health, prevent disease, and decrease and reverse symptoms of illness. In this revolutionary book, Collins presents us with a bold new paradigm of aging, telling us how we can increase not only our lifespan but also our health span.

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.

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...

An unflinching memoir that reframes a national tragedy and demands we reckon with the cost of ignoring intimate partner violence. On April 18, 2020, Lisa Banfield's life shattered. After nineteen years in a controlling and often abusive relationship, she escaped a violent assault by her partner, Gabriel Wortman–unaware he was about to carry out the deadliest mass shooting in Canadian history.

Écrit et lu par Nathalie Firminy, Ma vie de soignante en EHPAD vous plonge au cœur d’un quotidien où chaque vie compte. À travers des instants intimes, touchants et parfois bouleversants, ce témoignage révèle l’humanité de ceux que l’on voit trop peu : résidents, familles, soignants. Une immersion sincère qui éclaire la réalité du grand âge et met en lumière la peur qu’a notre société de vieillir, parfois plus forte encore que la peur de mourir.

Sex after Grief is the first book to address sex and grief together and treat sex as a normal, positive, life-affirming part of emerging from such a difficult time. Joan Price, the top expert on senior sex, draws on her own experiences as a widow since 2008, when she lost the love of her life to cancer. She shares her raw grief journey, sexual reawakening (and the many stumbles along the way), and attempts to dip back into dating, along with advice on handling each step.

During her own year of transition—a milestone birthday, a wedding anniversary, the emptying of the nest—Walrond, in the buoyant and luminous style her listeners have come to love, does a deep dive into dimensions of getting older, including health, beauty, spirituality, connection, adventure, and meaning and purpose. Through conversations with social workers and neurologists, activists and clergy, Walrond satisfies her curiosity about why the dominant culture treats aging as a time of dwindling capacity.

Has your parent or spouse been diagnosed with Dementia or Alzheimer's Disease? It is scary and sad, but knowing that you're not alone and there is a path forward should hopefully calm your mind a little.

Alors que notre espérance de vie augmente, que signifie vraiment être présent pour nos parents ? Dans des pages d'une rare humanité, le docteur Hélène Rossinot répond à toutes les interrogations que se posent les familles confrontées au temps qui passe. Elle les guide dans leur cheminement personnel comme dans leurs questions pratiques. Comment se préparer et anticiper le vieillissement de nos parents, gérer l'évolution de nos relations, de nos émotions, mais également les modifications de notre quotidien ?

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. When...

Trusted for more than three decades by family caregivers and professionals alike, this comprehensive and reassuring caregiving guide offers the crucial information you need to look after your elders and plan for the future. “The most complete resource between two covers.”—Woman’s Day ...

Mit den Fragen, Sorgen und Hoffnungen, die uns beim Älterwerden beschäftigen, setzt sich Riemann in "Die Kunst des Alterns" auseinander. Ein einsichtsvolles Hörbuch, gelesen von Andreas Wilde, das nachdenklich macht - nicht nur ältere Hörer und Hörerinnen.

Overtime offers a current, revelatory corrective to our understanding of the future of the American workforce and aging. Experts across economics, sociology, psychology, political science, and epidemiology examine how increasing economic and social inequalities, coupled with changes across generations or birth cohorts, call for a rethinking of the working-longer policy framework. Together, they argue that policies affecting work must be considered alongside policies affecting retirement and provide a path forward to achieve better retirement security for all Americans.

Shrouded with feelings of abandonment, inferiority, and self-loathing throughout adolescence Nan turned to food to ease her pain. She developed an eating disorder that would stay with her throughout adulthood. In Aging Powerfully, she explains the steps she took to not only break free, but to step out on a path to aging with power