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Bly, Noah. Cravit, David Douglas, Susan J. (Susan Jeanne) Marcus, Bonnie R. Steinem, Gloria.Cravit, David
Summary: "Welcome to the dazzling new world of SuperAging, where everything you've been taught about aging is challenged. Getting older does not need to mean the end of accomplishment and growth. For SuperAgers, the period after age sixty-five can be one of the most productive and fulfilling times of life. SuperAging is already a reality for millions. But the science, business, and culture of aging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flashpoint Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.67 CRAMarcus, Bonnie R.
Summary: "Despite advances made by women in the workplace, pay inequity and underrepresentation in top positions are still a reality. And, unfortunately, the situation looks worse for older women, who face what acclaimed author, podcast host, and sought-after coach Bonnie Marcus calls "the double whammy of gendered ageism." As a woman over fifty, you may be wondering if there is anything you can do as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Two Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.4084 MARDouglas, Susan J. (Susan Jeanne)
Summary: "With a sharp sense of justice and humor, Susan J. Douglas confronts ageism against women in media, work, and politics. In the 1970s, baby boom women began to redefine women's lives and opportunities. Now, that they are the largest American female generation over fifty, Susan J. Douglas argues that these feminist boomers are again challenging outdated stereotypes, and reinventing what it means...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Aging DouglasSummary: Alhaji has taken five wives; one died, he divorced another and lives with the remaining three. This program travels to Nigeria to examine the impact of polygamy and divorce on the country's population demographics, focusing on a case study of one family to highlight trends and concerns. The connection between religious values and family planning becomes apparent in interviews with various...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: What distinguishes the members of Generation Next from their predecessors? This program—a sequel to the celebrated public television documentary Generation Next (item #36957)—looks at the beliefs, concerns, and goals that galvanize young people today. Renowned broadcast journalist Judy Woodruff guides viewers across the United States and into the lives of America’s future leadership. In their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Whether they want to or not, four out of five Americans will likely die in hospitals or nursing homes, and the care they get will depend on both who is providing it and who is footing the bill. In this program, veteran PBS journalist Bill Moyers introduces crusading medical professionals-including staff members of the Balm of Gilead Project in Birmingham, Alabama-who have dedicated themselves...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: At the end of life, what many Americans want is physical and spiritual comfort in a home setting. In this program, veteran PBS journalist Bill Moyers presents the important strides being made in the area of palliative care at pioneering institutions such as New York's Mt. Sinai Medical Center and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. These advances are bringing peace to those who fear that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Raising complex and timely questions about the warehousing of America's prison population, this program accompanies photographer Ron Levine on his mission to depict the physical, emotional, and psychological conditions of aging inmates-including those nearing death. Levine focuses his work on Alabama's Hamilton Institute for the Aged and Infirm, the first prison created specifically for elderly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: In Tunisia, a home for the elderly is quite unusual since most older people are automatically cared for by their families. This program explores how Tunisia, both as a state and a culture, negotiates the task of providing for its growing senior population, a task many Tunisians see as illustrative of key differences between European and Arab values. Along with a tour of a home for the elderly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Bly, Noah.
Summary: In 1962, escaped fifty-four-year-old mental patient Julianna Dapper is joined by a shy African-American teenage boy and a young outlaw hitchhiker on her journey back to her childhood home in Missouri.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books, Kensington Publishing Corp 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Bly 2014Steinem, Gloria.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Elders Academy Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.26 STESummary: In the drive to save lives, American medical technology prolongs the dying process for many, creating a number of end-of-life scenarios that have done much to rob death of its dignity and significance. This Fred Friendly Seminar, moderated by Harvard Law School's Arthur Miller, brings together a diverse group of panelists, including Yale professor Sherwin Nuland, author of How We Die;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Sixteen students search for knowledge, fun, love, sex, and a path to a rewarding career as this documentary tracks them through one academic year at The University of British Columbia. Partying, clubs, and sports compete head-to-head with classes and sleep-but campus life is only one part of this compelling story. The other revolves around that age-old transition from child to adult known...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: More and more Americans are looking for opportunities to exert some measure of control over where and how they die. In this program, veteran PBS journalist Bill Moyers unravels the complexities underlying the many choices at the end of life, including the bitter debate over physician-assisted suicide. Three patients, their families, and their doctors discuss some of the hardest decisions,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: To decrease the suffering of terminally ill patients, some doctors routinely prescribe strong painkillers-medications that, in effect, actually hasten the patient's death. What distinguishes such treatment from physician-assisted suicide? This program discusses legislative initiatives designed to protect patients from "disguised euthanasia"-and addresses the volatile question of whether such...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Traditionally, a Japanese household contained an extended family, several generations under one roof. Now, cultural sensibilities and sweeping demographic changes have meant that young and old choose to live apart. This program examines how these factors have affected care of the elderly in a country with the longest-lived population in the world. Seniors discuss the challenge of living alone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: In this program, NewsHour correspondent Susan Dentzer reports on life and death in Sun City, Arizona, a vibrant retirement community where hospice is the preferred form of end-of-life care. Dartmouth Medical School's John Wennberg and others consider the desire of many senior citizens with terminal illnesses to make peace with death rather than fight it. They also confront the fact that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: In this revealing documentary, celebrated NewsHour and Frontline journalist Judy Woodruff takes viewers across the United States to examine the lives of 16- to 25-year-olds-a demographic that many are calling "Generation Next." The program demystifies an age group that is hooked on technology, generally supportive of gay rights and racial differences, but also swamped in debt and facing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Although many cultures venerate their elders, looking to them as living repositories of wisdom and experience, America, with its "forever young" self-image, does not. Lacking societal support, how are Americans supposed to age well-to grow older with grace and understanding-and make life's final decades a meaningful experience? This program features the stories of exemplary individuals who,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Death, which sooner or later comes to all, is treated as a strangely taboo subject in America. In this program, veteran PBS journalist Bill Moyers describes the search for new ways of thinking-and talking-about dying. Forgoing the usual reluctance that most Americans show toward speaking about death, patients and medical professionals alike come forward to examine the end of life with honesty,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: How have mixed cultural signals and online social interaction impacted the average teenager's behavior? Is reducing violence, drug abuse, and dangerous sex a lost cause? This ABC News program examines those questions, presenting three eye-opening stories of teen life. First, a small Michigan town recoils from a school-hall stabbing, highlighting an alarming rise in abusive teenage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This is a gritty and painfully real exposition of what it means to be black, poor, and elderly in the U.S. The film crew documents the life of Leonard and Sarah Bass on and off for six months, recording their struggle to survive, watching as well-meaning neighbors and opportunists come and go.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Ads targeting girls between the ages of 8 and 12 employ an increasing level of sexuality. Are advertisers responding to neo-feminist notions of "girl power" or are they leading girls toward harmful self-images? This program examines the trend by following a group of tween girls through their daily lives, recording their perceptions of fashion, celebrities, boys, and themselves. Interviews with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: As one lifelong Calcutta resident says in this program, "the breakup of large families is affecting older people, especially women." This program looks at how a changing society in India has forced many senior citizens to fend for themselves. The program focuses on several older women whose husbands have died and whose children have grown up and started families of their own. In the absence of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006