Live Better Live Longer edition by Philip Selby Professional Technical eBooks
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The first edition of this book, entitled "A Guide to Successful Aging" was published in English, French, German, Spanish, and Japanese, and tens of thousands of copies were sold. It has now been completely revised.
People today live longer than ever before. This increasing longevity is of vital importance -- a unique opportunity to plan constructively for one's later years. This book can help you to do so.
• Have you thought seriously about preparing for the later part of your life?
• Do you know how to cope with disabilities which may occur as you grow older?
• Are you caring for, or considering caring for, an elderly person? If so, do you know what is involved, and how to manage?
This book provides detailed practical advice which can help you and someone you care for to "live better, live longer".
Live Better Live Longer edition by Philip Selby Professional Technical eBooks
Dr. Philip Selby has accomplished a difficult goal: to be both comprehensive about the dynamics of aging and balanced among levels of discussion about specific problems associated with long life. This eBook presents information from disciplines of gerontology--including his own specialty of medicine, and provides the reader with information focused on discrete problems and the interactions among various factors affecting one's ability to live better and longer.As I read this reader-friendly book, I thought about its usefulness to wellness programs in senior centers, residential communities and introductory courses on aging. One need only check off chapters from the table of contents to see the breadth of the author's approach to a complex and ever-changing field. While all of the subjects have been covered, often in book length texts, Dr. Selby taps into the rich resources that have been expanded through research to provide evidence-based suggestions for how first to understand, and then to cope with problems associated with living long. The list of resources includes major texts to which we return as disability strikes and as coping with limitations increasingly defines the challenges we older people (I'm soon 77) face, and enjoy.
With each section of this text, Dr. Selby informs and enlightens a wide audience--not particularly specialists but they too will appreciate the context of aging. I am persuaded that children of aging parents concerned about their parents' well being should read Dr. Selby's prescriptions. While one's parents may be just beginning to face infirmities associated with long life, family members need to anticipate what will come--for parents and for themselves. As chronic illnesses, accidents or acute episodes profoundly affect the mobility, sense of physical and psychological well-being of one's parent, thoughtful children and other caring persons can return to this book to find explanations, a context as well as helpful suggestions about coping.
Dr. Selby has made it easy to be informed, to appreciate the complexities of interacting conditions and reduced capacities; he has reminded the reader that help is available and to seek such help. Information at the close of the book provides leads for readers to contact resources in various countries. Additionally, this book provides care-providers with a treasury of ways to understand and to care for the one finding life a tough slog through periods of stress. Unlike other texts, Dr. Selby deals with death wisely and with sensitivity for those facing impending death.
Navigating an eBook may be difficult, but this is a resource to keep nearby--and to share with others facing infirmities associated with long life. A witty person said, "If I had known I would live so long, I'd have taken better care of myself." To live better and longer starts now, no matter one's age or vitality, and this eBook will help.
Starting years ago, with Robert Butler's Why Survive, I have been moved by wonderful writers describing dynamics of aging; this is also a text that should be read--by people of all ages including those of us who could write a book about our own travails and excitement associated with long life. Dr. Selby has provided a guidebook on how to survive filled with warnings about pitfalls as well as strategies for making each day a little better.
James T. Sykes
Fulbright Scholar
Senior Advisor for Aging Policy
University of Wisconsin
School of Medicine and Public Health
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Live Better Live Longer edition by Philip Selby Professional Technical eBooks Reviews
I kept thinking of my remarkable neighbour who is ninety four as I read Philip Selby's book 'Live Better, Live Longer'. This friend, across the road from where I live, keeps a diary each day and plays postal chess with another neighbour. He's a photographer and a watercolour artist. He's also excellent at doing sketches of people's faces which he frames in his studio and presents to them. There aren't enough hours in the day for him. He's discovered that wearing headphones helps him hear people much better on the telephone as he's pretty hard of hearing; and he uses a zimmer frame or a crutch, because his balance is not what it used to be. He can look up his records and see for any month what he spent in the local supermarket five years ago or ten years ago and compare it with the same month in the current year.
He would feel both affirmed and encouraged by Philip Selby's quite remarkable book. He would also feel that here is an author who understands his loneliness after sixty three years of marriage. My neighbour is thirty years older than me. His inspiration and example and Philip Selby's wise and comprehensive book should help me construct interesting and fulfilling chapters in my life in the years to come.
Review of Philip Selby's book on health and ageing
For those who tend to believe that old age is not a problem but a catastrophe, this book is strongly recommended. It is a vade-mecum of wise advice on attaining a healthy lifestyle and preventing disease and disability. Encyclopedic in scope, it covers the whole range of personal activity from care of sight and hearing, through healthy diet (including food preparation for widowers), exercise, prevention of accidents and cancers, budget planning, preparation for retirement, social activities, housing, travel and much more. Noteworthy is the advice on coping with disabilities, both physical and mental and on dying and mourning.
This is the second edition of the book which also appears in French and Japanese and it is very much up to date. There is so much advice and explanation however that it would be easy to nitpick. For example lycopene is (correctly) cited as a component of tomatoes and proposed to protect against cancer of the prostate which it probably does not. No single food or phytochemical is as likely to protect health as well as a healthy overall diet. The excellent and comprehensive advice is directed to intelligent readers of a certain level of independence who live in societies where health, social and support services are readily available and thus limits, to some extent, its needed impact on other populations.
But this is a book so packed with information that it unlikely that the reader will read it straight through (convenient in kindle format) but will wish to flip back to other chapters or pages which will make a paper edition more convenient.
Dr. Philip Selby has accomplished a difficult goal to be both comprehensive about the dynamics of aging and balanced among levels of discussion about specific problems associated with long life. This eBook presents information from disciplines of gerontology--including his own specialty of medicine, and provides the reader with information focused on discrete problems and the interactions among various factors affecting one's ability to live better and longer.
As I read this reader-friendly book, I thought about its usefulness to wellness programs in senior centers, residential communities and introductory courses on aging. One need only check off chapters from the table of contents to see the breadth of the author's approach to a complex and ever-changing field. While all of the subjects have been covered, often in book length texts, Dr. Selby taps into the rich resources that have been expanded through research to provide evidence-based suggestions for how first to understand, and then to cope with problems associated with living long. The list of resources includes major texts to which we return as disability strikes and as coping with limitations increasingly defines the challenges we older people (I'm soon 77) face, and enjoy.
With each section of this text, Dr. Selby informs and enlightens a wide audience--not particularly specialists but they too will appreciate the context of aging. I am persuaded that children of aging parents concerned about their parents' well being should read Dr. Selby's prescriptions. While one's parents may be just beginning to face infirmities associated with long life, family members need to anticipate what will come--for parents and for themselves. As chronic illnesses, accidents or acute episodes profoundly affect the mobility, sense of physical and psychological well-being of one's parent, thoughtful children and other caring persons can return to this book to find explanations, a context as well as helpful suggestions about coping.
Dr. Selby has made it easy to be informed, to appreciate the complexities of interacting conditions and reduced capacities; he has reminded the reader that help is available and to seek such help. Information at the close of the book provides leads for readers to contact resources in various countries. Additionally, this book provides care-providers with a treasury of ways to understand and to care for the one finding life a tough slog through periods of stress. Unlike other texts, Dr. Selby deals with death wisely and with sensitivity for those facing impending death.
Navigating an eBook may be difficult, but this is a resource to keep nearby--and to share with others facing infirmities associated with long life. A witty person said, "If I had known I would live so long, I'd have taken better care of myself." To live better and longer starts now, no matter one's age or vitality, and this eBook will help.
Starting years ago, with Robert Butler's Why Survive, I have been moved by wonderful writers describing dynamics of aging; this is also a text that should be read--by people of all ages including those of us who could write a book about our own travails and excitement associated with long life. Dr. Selby has provided a guidebook on how to survive filled with warnings about pitfalls as well as strategies for making each day a little better.
James T. Sykes
Fulbright Scholar
Senior Advisor for Aging Policy
University of Wisconsin
School of Medicine and Public Health
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