Renowned sociologist Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot 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. The Third Chapter: Passion, Risk, and Adventure in the 25 Years After 50, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Dr. Robert Schwalbe’s book, Sixty, Sexy, and Successful: A Guide for Aging Male Baby Boomers, offers a straight-talking guide for men reaching 60 and beyond—and those who love them—to assure the decades to come are among the most rewarding of their lives. Published by Praeger.

One of America’s leading neuroscientists reveals the remarkable brain evolution caused by the constant presence of technology today in iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind. Discovering brain evolution caused by the constant presence of technology today, separating the digital natives-those born in the computer age-from the digital immigrants, who discovered computer technology as adults. Published by Harper Collins Publishers.

Books by Dan Shapiro include Mom’s Marijuana: Life, Love and Beating the Odds and Delivering Doctor Amelia: The Story of a Gifted Young Obstetrician’s Mistake and the Psychologist who Helped Her. From the Knopf Publishing Group.

My Mother, Your Mother: Embracing “Slow Medicine,” the Compassionate Approach to Caring for Your Aging Loved Ones, a book by Dennis McCullough.  The suggestion of Slow Medicine is a measured treatment of “less is more” that improves the quality of patients’ extended late lives without bankrupting their families financially or emotionally. From HarperCollins Publishers.

A finalist for the 2006 SIBA (Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance) Fiction Award. Publised by St. Martin’s Press. The Pleasure Was Mine takes place during a critical summer in the life of Prate Marshbanks, when he retires to care for his wife, who is gradually slipping away. To complicate things, Prate's son, a recently widowed single father, asks Prate to keep his nine-year-old grandson for the summer.

Provides support to family caregivers and the professionals who help them.

Educates, supports, empowers and speaks up for the more than 50 million caregivers in America.

In John Cacioppo’s Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection, he explains how prolonged loneliness can be as harmful to your health as smoking or obesity. On the flip side, he demonstrates the therapeutic power of social connection, and point the way toward making that healing balm available to everyone. Published by W.W. Norton & Co.

Calling for a brave and creative reevaluation of what is possible in the second half of women’s lives, Prime: Adventures and Advice on Sex, Love, and the Sensual Years invites every woman to develop and maintain her sexuality. From Collins Living.

Aging affects your whole body, so it's bound to have an impact on sex. A Mayo Clinic specialist offers tips for a satisfying sex life as you grow older.

Dr. Jane Adams books include When Our Grown Kids Disappoint Us: Letting Go Of Their Problems Loving Them Anyway and Getting On With Our Lives (Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group) and I’m Still Your Mother: How To Get Along With Your Grown Up Children For The Rest Of Your Life (iUniverse, Inc.).

Dr. Jane Adams books include When Our Grown Kids Disappoint Us: Letting Go Of Their Problems Loving Them Anyway and Getting On With Our Lives (Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group) and I’m Still Your Mother: How To Get Along With Your Grown Up Children For The Rest Of Your Life (iUniverse, Inc.).

Suzanne Braun Levine, Fifty is the New Fifty: 10 Life Lessons for Women in Second Adulthood to maximize creativity and happiness in the second half of life. From Viking Adult.

In John Cacioppo’s Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection, he explains how prolonged loneliness can be as harmful to your health as smoking or obesity. On the flip side, he demonstrates the therapeutic power of social connection, and point the way toward making that healing balm available to everyone. Published by W.W. Norton & Co.

Guest and best-selling author Gail Sheehy’s books address fundamental questions that apply to women and men as they move through the stages of adult life from adolescence into their seasoned years.

A short audio piece from the Mayo Clinic on intimate relationships and how they change over time.

My Mother, Your Mother: Embracing “Slow Medicine,” the Compassionate Approach to Caring for Your Aging Loved Ones, a book by Dennis McCullough.  The suggestion of Slow Medicine is a measured treatment of “less is more” that improves the quality of patients’ extended late lives without bankrupting their families financially or emotionally. From HarperCollins Publishers.

In Encore: Finding Work That Matters in the Second Half of Life, Marc Freedman tells the stories of these encore career pioneers, who are working not only for continued income, but for the promise of more meaning and the chance to do work that matters. From Perseus Publishing.

Social entrepreneur Marc Freedman offers a vision of work in the second half of life, on new terms, in new ways, to new ends.