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Angesichts der Fulle weitgehend unstrukturierter Stunden, die die Altersphase den Menschen aus modernen Industriegesellschaften beschert, gerat der Alltag im Alter leicht zur -moralischen Grauzone-. Die fallige Neukonzeption eines Alltags wird zur individuellen Verhaltensaufgabe und erweist sich fur wenig zeitkompetente Menschen als geradezu tragisches Geschenk. Vormals gelebte Selbstverstandlichkeiten mussen durch neue Routinen ersetzt werden. Von der individuell gelungenen Installierung eines...

An Invitation to Listen to Your Soul's Calling How do you define "growing up"? Does it mean you achieve certain cultural benchmarks-a steady income, paying taxes, marriage, and children? Or does it mean leaving behind the expectations of others and growing into the person you were meant to be? If you find yourself in a career, place, relationship, or crisis you never foresaw or that seems at odds with your beliefs about who you are, it means your soul is calling on you to reexamine your path....

We are living in an era of unprecedented world-wide crises: COVID-19, climate change, overpopulation and the unravelling of civilization as we know it. Who wouldn't be worried? This book is for those over 65 wrestling with fear, despair, insecurity, and loneliness in these frightening times. A blend of psychology, self-help, and spirituality, it's meant for all who hunger for facts, respect, compassion, and meaningful resources to light their path ahead. As a 74-year old member of this demograph...

"We are awash in time, savoring a few moments of it; we project ourselves into it, reinvent it, play with it; we take our time or let it slip away: it is the raw material of our imagination. Age, on the other hand, is the detailed account of the days that pass, the one-way view of the years whose total sum when set forth can stupefy us. Age wedges each of us between a date of birth that, at least in the West, we know for certain and an expiration date that, as a general rule, we would like to de...

Die Erwartung, Hilfe zu bekommen oder selbst kompetent agieren zu konnen, wirkt sich protektiv auf das psychische Befinden alter Menschen aus. Dies belegen mannigfache gerontologische Studien, ungeklart blieb jedoch die kausale Beziehung von Social Support und Kompetenzerwartung. Hat eine Person je nach ihrer Kompetenzerwartung unterschiedliche Hilfebedurfnisse? Oder ist vielmehr Social Support die Pradiktorvariable fur Kompetenzerwartung? Von grossem Interesse ist zudem nicht nur die kognitive...

How often do you feel restricted; physically, socially, mentally or financially? Are you aware of your limitations? How often is time or lack of experience the cause of anxious procrastination; waiting for the right moment? What if the very thing standing in our way, is actually our golden opportunity? ~ Ky-Lee Hanson. Relearn and rethink the way you perceive limitations with each chapter from a tribe of successful, driven, strong and soulful women.

The Review of Adult Learning and Literacy: Connecting Research Policy, and Practice, Volume 4 is the newest addition to a series of annual publications of the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL) that address major issues, the latest research, and the best practices in the field of adult literacy and learning. Volume 4 opens with an overview of significant recent developments in the field. Subsequent chapters cover a wide range of topics critical to the success o...

Aging is a gift that we receive with life—and in New Aging, the architect Matthias Hollwich outlines smart, simple ideas to help us experience it that way.   New Aging invites us to take everything we associate with aging—the loss of freedom and vitality, the cold and sterile nursing homes, the boredom—and throw it out the window. As an architect, Matthias Hollwich is devoted to finding ways in which we can shape our living spaces and communities to make aging a graceful and fulfilling aspect of...

In today's industrialized societies, the majority of parents work full time while caring for and raising their children and managing household upkeep, trying to keep a precarious balance of fulfilling multiple roles as parent, worker, friend, & child. Increasingly demands of the workplace such as early or late hours, travel, commute, relocation, etc. conflict with the needs of being a parent. At the same time, it is through work that people increasingly define their identity and self-worth, and...