It may be strange to say this about a practical guidebook on woman
and aging but this one is pure delight ― uplifting, engaging and
alive with the voices of wise women. My favorites are the
95-year-old who has a martini every night and goes barefoot as much
as possible, and Nina, the futuristic woman whom the authors
conjure as the strong, self-sufficient oldie all of us can become
with the aid of technology. In 2016, the baby boomers start turning
70. No woman should take that leap without 70Candles! at her
bedside. ―Letty Cottin Pogrebin, author of Getting Over Getting
Older 70Candles! offers wonderful wisdom, advice, and practical
tips for making the most of life after seventy. In stark contrast
to gloomy media portraits of aging, the authors show us how the
later years can be filled with joy, excitement, and vibrant living.
A book for every older person - and everyone who will become one!
―Karl Pillemer, Ph.D., author of 30 Lessons for Living: Tried and
True Advice from the Wisest Americans
Jane Giddan and Ellen Cole, who enlarge the burgeoning world of
septuagenarian women through their excellent blog 70candles.com,
further expand their reach through 70Candles! Women Thriving in
Their 8th Decade, a most welcome new addition to the
women-who-age-successfully canon. In the dramatically changing
demographic of today's world, reaching 70 is a new frontier for
women who can look forward to new activities, new relationships,
and new discoveries―especially about themselves. As our experience
has taught us, it's largely through our friendships with women and
the examples of our peers that we find not only support, but
inspiration as we spend this gift of time in a world our mothers
and grandmothers never knew. ―Thelma Reese, Ed.D., author with
Barbara M. Fleisher, Ed.D. of The New Senior Woman: Reinventing the
Years Beyond Mid-Life
Well, it's about time! This book will finally put to rest the
archaic views we have all held in the past regarding aging. BFF's
(to phrase it in today's lingo) since they were fourteen, Authors
Jane Giddan and Ellen Cole have put together a comprehensive, and
ultimately, exciting book about turning seventy in the twenty-first
century. Both authors are academics, and the study is in depth in
ways that few books on aging are. After their own careful research
in person with groups of women becoming seventy, they then turn to
the women themselves to write about the challenges and delights
that growing older bring. Forget the stereotypes we are all used
to...these women are really rockin'! And certainly not in a creaky
chair on a long front porch. - Ginnie Siena Bivona, author, &
publisher of the Ageless Authors Anthologies www.agelessauthors.com
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