How to Feel Good As You Age: A Voice of Experience [Hardcover]

John Barnett (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 25, 1999

A book that helps you lengthen your living years and shorten your dying years.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"How to Feel GOOD As You Age challenges everyone to harness inborn resources to a wellness attitude and thus lengthen their quality years. It is a 'can do' health scenario." -- Regina Sara Ryan, co-author of The Wellness Workbook

"How to Feel GOOD As You Age provides page after page of ways for you to take charge of your health not only physically but also mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and socially for the highest quality of life." -- Alan Gaby, M.D., Past President of the American Holistic Medical Association

"Each of us is given the potential for a deeply meaningful aging process. John Barnett reminds us of that with How to Feel GOOD As You Age: A Voice of Experience." -- Donald W. Kemper, Founder and Chairman of Healthwise, Incorporated

"John Barnett has written a book which deserves to be in every home. He writes about everyday issues in a practical, easily read way. We all need counsel and guidance in the most efficient ways to meet the passing years. Here in this book are wise guideposts for each day. I recommend this book most enthusiastically." -- The Reverend Dale E. Turner, author of Grateful Living and Different Seasons

"When you have the inspiration, the information is useful. Read, learn, and experience How to Feel GOOD As You Age." -- Bernie Siegel, M.D., author of Prescriptions for Living and Love, Medicine and Miracles --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

A cancer survivor, John Barnett started the first men's cancer information and support group in the Seattle area in 1991 at the University of Washington Medical Center. He teaches a course on chronic condition self-management and is an ombudsman advocating for the rights of nursing home residents.

As primary caregiver to his 92-year-old mother, John has gained valuable experience in problems of the aged who live in their own homes, and in the availability of public and private resources to enable continued independence. As a trained bereavement worker, he counsels those who have recently experienced the death of their spouses, helping them to explore their grief and to assess their own recovery.

John is also a lay Stephan Minister. For seven years he has ministered to seniors in nursing and retirement homes, to hospice patients and their families, and to hospice staff. He helps patients to explore their preparation for dying, prays with them, and is present to the concerns of their families and friends.

Retired from the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), John lives with his wife in Kirkland, Washington. As a balance to his work with the ill and aging, he runs Youth Tennis Outreach in Seattle's inner city and leads tours of Seattle's Arboretum and the Japanese Garden. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 346 pages
• Publisher: Vanderwyk & Burnham (October 25, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1889242071
• ISBN-13: 978-1889242071
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,137,767 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How to Feel Good as You Age, March 23, 2000

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The Rev. Dr. James W. Hagelganz (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Feel Good As You Age: A Voice of Experience (Paperback)

John Barnett writes from personal experiece about getting the most out of life and death issues. He covers in an easily read and interesting way such issues as valuing your body, mind and spirit; how good nutrition helps to avoid disease; interacting with your doctor, caregivers and family; ways to stay in control of your life from your home, legal and financial options and determining when it's time to move; taking actions to leave your legacy stamped with your own personality that will help others to celebrate your individuality.

He deals with the sensitive subject of facing death and offers suggestions from his experience as a hospice worker who often interacts with dying people. A most helpful chapter is dealing with the death of a loved one, or your own death, helping to seek inner peace, and where this can take place. Good information is given to help us to know what happens as the body system shuts down and how the dying person enters the death experience in the last days and hours. He gives excellent suggestions as to what the family needs to do immediately after death, kinds of funerals and burials (there are more than one), informs about normal grieving for spouses, family and friends and then enters a discussion on the spouse being single again and socializing.

He writes an easy reading style with sensitivity and gives practical and helpful material. He lists books, web sites, and places where the reader can get more information. The book has an excellent index. Those sources alone are worth the book. Some issues are covered with the idea that more information is available in the sites listed. Other areas are dealt with in detail. He has an excellent balance of sharing information.

One quickly discovers that he is knowledgeable in this field. The bibiliography reveals the breadth of reading in this area. He balances theory, with his practical experiences of his profession. When he was diagnosed with Cancer, he began a search on how to become a survivor. He is a survivor and has shared his insights with us.

It is a book every family should have in its stack of important books. This book is an excellent resource for medical, social workers, clergy, teachers, families. I recommend it. It helps us to deal with basics of living.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How to feel Good as you age, December 31, 1999

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Eugene Hall (Wenatchee, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Feel Good As You Age: A Voice of Experience (Hardcover)

Mr.Barnett's book "How to feel Good as you age" is the most complete treatise on this subject I have read. He has done an exceptional job researching material for this book I will certainly recommend it to all of my friends and shall keep is as a reference when problems in my life occur.