Lifelong Learning Resources
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- Resource:
- Refirement: A Guide to Midlife and Beyond .
- Publisher:
- Minneapolis, MN: Kirk House, 2005 .
- Notes:
- Redefines the aging years as an opportunity to leave a valuable leagacy for future generations. Challenges Boomers (and anyone else wishing to redefine retirement) to draw on their root values and experiences to energize their life through the mid-life challenges and beyond
- WorldCat:
- www.worldcat.org/oclc/77460582
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- Secrets of Becoming a Late Bloomer: Staying Creative, Aware, and Involved in Midlife and Beyond .
- Publisher:
- Minneapolis, MN: Fairview Press, 2007 .
- Notes:
- Combines real-life stories with dozens of practical tips to help individuals make the most of the second-half of their life
- WorldCat:
- www.worldcat.org/oclc/137222031
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- Purpose and Power in Retirement .
- Publisher:
- Philadelphia, PA: Templeton Foundation Press, 2002 .
- Notes:
- Traces the history of retirement and presents research on the effects of retirement on the mind, body and spirit. Invites readers to adopt a vocation or purpose instead of the 'leisure' retirement model
- WorldCat:
- www.worldcat.org/oclc/49320387
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- Third Chapter: Passion, Risk, and Adventure in the 25 Years after 50, The .
- Publisher:
- New York, NY: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2009 .
- Notes:
- Challenges the still-prevailing and anachronistic images of aging by documenting and revealing the ways in which the years between ages fifty and seventy-five (the third chapter) may, in fact, be the most transformative and generative time in a person's life
- WorldCat:
- www.worldcat.org/oclc/233635063
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- Something to Live For: Finding Your Way in the Second Half of Life .
- Publisher:
- San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2008 .
- Notes:
- Discusses how to live authentically and wholeheartedly in the second half of life and, in doing so, find ways to both enjoy the world and make a meaningful contribution
- WorldCat:
- www.worldcat.org/oclc/225442481
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- Confronting the Future: Strategic Visions for the 21st Century Public Library .
- Publisher:
- Chicago, IL: American Library Association, Office for Information Technology Policy, 2011 .
- Notes:
- Discusses the formidable challenges facing public libraries in the 21st century. Offers insights into how libraries will need to rapidly evolve to meet these challenges.
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- Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women in Second Adulthood .
- Publisher:
- New York, NY: Viking, 2005 .
- Notes:
- Offers insights into how to render the second half of life a period of accomplishment, passion, and self-discovery
- WorldCat:
- www.worldcat.org/oclc/55109172
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- Resource:
- “Older Learner’s Journey to an Ageless Society: Lifelong Learning on the Brink of a Crisis, The”
- Publication:
- Journal of Transformative Education, 3, no. 3 (2005): 198-220 .
- Publisher:
- Sage Publications .
- Notes:
- Explores the connection between educational programs for mid-life and older learners, and our social ideologies about aging, work, retirement, and the economy. Following the older learner’s path through a 70-year journey starting in the 1950s and ending in a projected year 2020 reveals correlations between theories of aging, rationales for older learner programs, and changes in public policy regarding retirement, social and health care insurance, and other age-based entitlement programs and social policies. If, as is asserted here, we are on the verge of an age-irrelevant society, then these lifelong learning programs hover on the brink of a crisis that may or may not be averted.
- WorldCat:
- www.worldcat.org/oclc/439121779
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- Five Stages of the Soul: Charting the Spiritual Passages that Shape Our Lives, The .
- Publisher:
- New York, NY: Anchor Books, 1997 .
- Notes:
- Explores the interest in a spiritual life that most people pursue in their middle years, moving through five stages of development: the call, the search, the struggle, the breakthrough, and the return
- WorldCat:
- www.worldcat.org/oclc/36241699
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- Brain Health and Wellness .
- Publisher:
- Tarentum, PA: Word Association, 2003 .
- Notes:
- Offers a pro-active and lifelong regimen for brain health—not only to build a robust brain but to fight off or delay the onset of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s. Describes the kind of lifestyle necessary to maximize successful aging, brain wellness, and disease prevention
- WorldCat:
- www.worldcat.org/oclc/53795915
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