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From the authors of AARP Meditations for Caregivers
AARP Love and Meaning after 50 offers insights and anecdotes, do it yourself assessments and follow-up exercises, and tips for connecting through the difficult times. With this book, you’ll find deeper meaning and greater satisfaction for the
decades ahead–together.
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AARP LOVE AND MEANING AFTER 50: The 10 Challenges to Great Relationships and How to Overcome Them
This timely release tackles the 10 most common challenges of sustaining loving relationships and emotional wellness in your 50s, 60s, and beyond. Authors Julia Mayer and Barry Jacobs, a husband-wife team of psychologists with more than 50 years of combined clinical experience helping individuals and couples, provide professional expertise paired with tried-and-true advice from those who’ve walked this walk before. They offer insights on how to address:
The Empty Nest • Extended Family • Finances • Infidelity • Retirement • Downsizing and Relocating • Sex • Health Concerns • Caregiving • Loss of Loved Ones
AARP Love and Meaning After 50 offers anecdotes, do it yourself assessments and follow-up exercises, and tips for connecting through the difficult times. With this book you’ll find deeper meaning and greater satisfaction for the decades ahead—together.
Love and Meaning After 50: Talking Points
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- Baby boomers have filed for divorce more than any generation before or since, highlighting the marital struggles they encounter—empty nest, caregiving, loss—and how there hasn’t been a roadmap for how to address those struggles, until now.
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- Feelings of grief are not uncommon during the empty-nest transition. For many couples, raising children can be the most meaningful activity they have ever experienced, and it is coming to an end.
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- Couples must find a balance between “Me Time” and “We Time.” Too much “Me Time” may mean the couple has too few mutual interests and activities. Too much “We Time,” on the other hand, can stifle individual pursuits and growth and ultimately lead to a stale and stultifying marriage.
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- The sudden intrusion of any family members can disrupt the lives of even long-contented couples. Couples need to sit together and consider how devoting time to a family member’s needs will affect them as individuals and as a couple. Negotiating and compromising can lead to open, healthy discussions, and reduce the likelihood of a disagreement.
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- Finances are the leading cause of marital stress. Nearly half of households headed by someone fifty-five or older have no retirement savings or pension benefits. Many older couples fear that they will outlive their money and worry about those consequences.
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- The Ameriprise Financial survey found that more than a third of retirees miss socializing with work colleagues. After retirement, many people realize their socializing needs were met through jobs, and leaving work is a drastic change to their social life.
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- Many couples have a hard time downsizing and relocating because they love their homes that are familiar and filled with memories. Making this a joint decision and working through the grieving process together can lead to an adjustment that benefits both partners.
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- Many couples that are struggling with the psychological effects of aging tend to neglect sex and intimacy, but there are many ways to reignite romance and intimacy while aging. Feeling close to each other is the most important component of a relationship.
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- Caregiving can put multiple stressors on the caregiver, who puts their own health, savings, and time aside, as well as on the relationship. Caregiving can encompass caring for aging parents, grown children, and other relatives and friends, in addition to caring for a spouse.
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- Even when assistive devices like hearing aids and canes would improve their socializing and relationship while aging, some still deny having problems at all. Couples should recognize that caring for their own health is a way they care for each other.
Previously Released Books
Family care giving has its challenges: emotional overload, time constraints, anxiety, burnout, missed work, adult sibling conflicts, and marital issues. AARP Meditations for Caregivers blends emotional and spiritual motivation to minimize the strains while helping caregivers view their work as a mission from the heart. Chapters are organized by theme, including topics such as accepting your feelings, knowing your limits, seeking support, and managing stress. Each reading offers a poignant meditation, an anecdote drawn from the author’s personal or clinical experience, and hands-on or psychological advice to foster coping skills and a sense of fulfillment.
The meditations in this dispensable book will provide you with solutions to typical care giving challenges, offer relief and renewal through mindfulness, and inspire you to find meaning and value in the work you do. BUY THIS TITLE: AMAZON – BN – APPLE BOOKS
A bad relationship bringing you down? Psychologist June Gray, Ph.D., knows all about that. And she’s desperately trying to figure out what to do about it. Travel with her as she roller-coasters between the depths of despair and the heights of joy, all the while trying to make a living treating her patients, who have issues painfully similar to her own. An experienced psychologist, June knows how to help others with their relationship troubles. But can she follow her own good advice? On your journey through the life and mind of a neurotic psychologist, you might just gain some valuable insight into yourself and others as well as have some laughs along the way.
The meditations in this dispensable book will provide you with solutions to typical care giving challenges, offer relief and renewal through mindfulness, and inspire you to find meaning and value in the work you do. BUY THIS TITLE: AMAZON – BN
Caring for a parent whose health is in decline is a deeply meaningful way to express your love and loyalty. But if you’ve come to this website, chances are you’re also struggling with some aspects of your role as a caregiver. Whether you’re tired of clashes with siblings, frustrated that your parent no longer seems to appreciate your help, or confused by ambivalent feelings, you’re not alone. The emotional toll of caregiving is seldom acknowledged, but the costs are tremendous and the potential for burnout is high.
Barry J. Jacobs, Psy.D., has been there—both as a clinical psychologist and family therapist specializing in counseling medical patients and their loved ones and as a child who felt the impact of caregiving on his own family. BUY THIS TITLE: AMAZON – BN – APPLE BOOKS
Previously Released Books
Family care giving has its challenges: emotional overload, time constraints, anxiety, burnout, missed work, adult sibling conflicts, and marital issues. AARP Meditations for Caregivers blends emotional and spiritual motivation to minimize the strains while helping caregivers view their work as a mission from the heart. Chapters are organized by theme, including topics such as accepting your feelings, knowing your limits, seeking support, and managing stress. Each reading offers a poignant meditation, an anecdote drawn from the author’s personal or clinical experience, and hands-on or psychological advice to foster coping skills and a sense of fulfillment.
The meditations in this dispensable book will provide you with solutions to typical care giving challenges, offer relief and renewal through mindfulness, and inspire you to find meaning and value in the work you do. BUY THIS TITLE: AMAZON – BN – APPLE BOOKS
A bad relationship bringing you down? Psychologist June Gray, Ph.D., knows all about that. And she’s desperately trying to figure out what to do about it. Travel with her as she roller-coasters between the depths of despair and the heights of joy, all the while trying to make a living treating her patients, who have issues painfully similar to her own. An experienced psychologist, June knows how to help others with their relationship troubles. But can she follow her own good advice? On your journey through the life and mind of a neurotic psychologist, you might just gain some valuable insight into yourself and others as well as have some laughs along the way.
The meditations in this dispensable book will provide you with solutions to typical care giving challenges, offer relief and renewal through mindfulness, and inspire you to find meaning and value in the work you do. BUY THIS TITLE: AMAZON – BN
Caring for a parent whose health is in decline is a deeply meaningful way to express your love and loyalty. But if you’ve come to this website, chances are you’re also struggling with some aspects of your role as a caregiver. Whether you’re tired of clashes with siblings, frustrated that your parent no longer seems to appreciate your help, or confused by ambivalent feelings, you’re not alone. The emotional toll of caregiving is seldom acknowledged, but the costs are tremendous and the potential for burnout is high.
Barry J. Jacobs, Psy.D., has been there—both as a clinical psychologist and family therapist specializing in counseling medical patients and their loved ones and as a child who felt the impact of caregiving on his own family. BUY THIS TITLE: AMAZON – BN – APPLE BOOKS
