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    • Travels with My Elders
    • By: Ben Aitken
    • Narrated by: Ben Aitken
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • When Ben Aitken learnt that his gran had enjoyed a four-night holiday including four three-course dinners, four cooked breakfasts, four games of bingo, a pair of excursions, 16 pints of lager and luxury return coach travel, all for a hundred pounds, he thought, that's the life....

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    • How to Slow, Stop, and Reverse Aging — and Not Die from Something Stupid
    • By: Peter H. Diamandis
    • Narrated by: Peter H. Diamandis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • We are in the midst of a healthspan revolution that will enable us to live vitally beyond 100 years old.

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    • Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans
    • By: Karl Pillemer Ph.D.
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • More than 1,000 extraordinary Americans share their stories and the wisdom they have gained on living, loving, and finding happiness....

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    • The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble
    • By: Stephen Jenkinson, Charles Eisenstein - foreword
    • Narrated by: Stephen Jenkinson
    • Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • In his landmark provocative style, Stephen Jenkinson makes the case that we must birth a new generation of elders, one poised and willing to be true stewards of the planet and its species....

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    • Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying
    • By: Ram Dass
    • Narrated by: Steve Susskind
    • Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 29-11-00
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying is Ram Dass' reflection on the joys, pains, and opportunities that appear as we age...

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    • The Positive Power of the Aging Brain
    • By: Gene D. Cohen M.D. Ph.D.
    • Narrated by: Allan Robertson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Gene Cohen, a renowned psychiatrist and gerontologist, draws from more than thirty years of research to show that surprising positive changes in our brains have the powerful potential to enhance, not diminish, our lives after fifty....

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    • 10 Principles for Staying Vital, Happy, and Sharp
    • By: John Medina
    • Narrated by: John Medina
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 17-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Unlocking the World's Fastest-Growing, Most Misunderstood Market
    • By: Joseph F. Coughlin
    • Narrated by: Kiff VandenHeuvel
    • Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Over the past two decades, Joseph F. Coughlin has been busting myths about aging with groundbreaking multidisciplinary research into what older people actually want....

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    • Accept Your Past and Take Control of Your Future
    • By: Nan Simonsen
    • Narrated by: Patricia Shade
    • Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 29-12-22
    • Language: English
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    • 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....

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    • Working; Retiring; Reinventing; Thriving.
    • By: Harry Austin
    • Narrated by: Angus King
    • Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 27-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Let’s explore how to make retirement the best years ever. After all, you only retire once. When you retire, you don't expire.

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    • By: Mary Pipher
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 22-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In Women Rowing North, Pipher offers a timely examination of the cultural and developmental issues women face as they age....

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    • Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
    • By: Louise Aronson
    • Narrated by: Eliza Foss
    • Length: 18 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • As revelatory as Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson’s Elderhood is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life....

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    • The Men of the Harvard Grant Study
    • By: George E. Vaillant
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 24-12-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • At a time when many people around the world are living into their 10th decade, the longest longitudinal study of human development ever undertaken offers some welcome news for the new old age....

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    • Adventures in a World Without Children
    • By: Andrew D. Blechman
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In Leisureville, Andrew Blechman delves into life in the senior utopia, offering a hilarious firsthand report on everything from ersatz nostalgia to the residents' surprisingly active sex lives. But this is more than just a romp through a retirement paradise....

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    • Passion, Risk, and Adventure in the 25 Years After 50
    • By: Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 18-02-09
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In The Third Chapter, Dr. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot offers a strong counterpoint to the murky ambivalence that shrouds our clear view of people in their third chapters....

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    • Reclaim Aging, Practice Joy, and Raise a Little Hell
    • By: Karen Walrond
    • Narrated by: Karen Walrond
    • Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 17-10-23
    • Language: English
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    • Join Karen Walrond, author of The Lightmaker's Manifesto, in this intriguing investigation into how we can reclaim aging, cultivate joy, and resist ageism....

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    • By: Nell Painter
    • Narrated by: Nell Painter
    • Length: 11 hrs
    • Release date: 19-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school to earn a BFA and MFA in painting. In Old in Art School, she travels from her beloved Newark to the Rhode Island School of Design....

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    • Through Each of the 4 Main Belief Systems
    • By: Kelvin H. Chin
    • Narrated by: Kelvin H. Chin
    • Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 31-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Are you afraid of death? What is death? Is it the end, the beginning, or a transition? Why are we so afraid of death? After all, death is inevitable....

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    • Neue Wege, um geistig und körperlich fit zu bleiben
    • By: Marianne Koch
    • Narrated by: Marianne Koch, Klaus Schneider
    • Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 21-12-21
    • Language: German
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    • "Älter werden wir alle, auf das Wie kommt es an." Wie es gelingt, geistig jung, gesund und voller Elan zu bleiben, lebt uns Dr. med. Marianne...

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