The Practical Guide to Aging: What Everyone Needs to Know

A daunting aspect of growing older is the torrent of advice about maintaining physical health and mental acuity, managing finances, avoiding falls, and caring for ageing parents. Often the advice is complicated or diffuse, and difficult to locate just when it is needed. Intended both as a reference and for casual reading, this book addresses a wide range of topics relevant to the ageing process. It includes an extensive listing of major national and regional US organizations, organized by category.