Senior Moments: Getting the Most Out of Your Golden Years [Paperback]

David Wayne Silva (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 5, 2005

The aging process brings senior citizens both happiness and sadness. They must choose the path they want to follow As seniors it is up to us to make these years the best years This book helps senior men and women deal with physical and mental problems that accompany aging. There are positive ways we can deal with the common problems of chromic illness, depression, pain and family strife. This guide serves the needs of the growing senior population and their families by providing information that will help them adjust to the physical aspects of growing old. Seniors can still grow both physically and spiritually by revitalizing their beliefs, their self image, their attitude toward others, and their love for life. This is a book that can enrich the lives of senior men and women. It can help make the golden years golden. Be Encouraged... You Are Not Alone.

Editorial Reviews

From the Author

This book is the direct result of over 30 years of family, marriage and grief counseling. The stories used to illustrate different points are about real people. Senior Moments urges the reader to look at the process of aging with humor and good intentions, to observe the beauty in the natural world around us, to take care of our bodies, to exercise and eat a balanced diet, to maintain old and build new relationships, to maintain and reenforce our spirituality, and to laugh more and cry less.

Our senior years may not have a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, but they can be golden years. It is up to us to make them this way.

From the Back Cover

Self Help/Personal Growth David Wayne Silva has been a teacher, school administrator, and Family and Grief Counselor. He retired after 45 years. He was married and raised a family. David has been an active worker in the Methodist Church. He retired to a senior community in Santa rosa, California where he writes for a local paper and has completed several books.

The Golden Years Can Be Golden Years

The aging process brings senior citizen both happiness and sadness. They must choose the path they want to follow. As seniors it is up to us to make these years the best years. This book helps senior men and women deal with physical and mental problems that accompany aging. There are positive ways we can deal with the common problems of chronic illness, depression, pain and family strife.

This guide serves the needs of the growing senior population and their families by providing information that will help them adjust to the physical aspects of growing old. Seniors can still grown both physically and spiritually by revitalizing their beliefs, their self image, their attitude toward others, and their love for life.

This is a book that can enrich the lives of senior men and women. It can help make the golden years golden. Be encouraged...you are not alone

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Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Outskirts Press (December 5, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1598001639
• ISBN-13: 978-1598001631
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,902,701 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 A Great Senior Read, March 28, 2006

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Mark Twain Bob "Bob" (Ca) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Senior Moments: Getting the Most Out of Your Golden Years (Paperback)

A friend loaned me this book and I really enjoyed reading it. I am not a senior myself, but I am caretaker for one. The author hit the nail on the head as far as understanding seniors. His advice was both helpful and friendly. I showed the book to my senior friend and he said that it was good to read a book for seniors that was written by a senior who understood the problems that accompany the aging process.
I highly recommend this book. It is a must read for all seniors.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Refreshing, Cleansing, Enriching, August 12, 2006

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Richard R. Blake (Bridgman, Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Senior Moments: Getting the Most Out of Your Golden Years (Paperback)

The subtitle of David Wayne Silva's book "Senior Moments" really describes what this book is about. It is a message of hope and a positive philosophy for "Getting the Most Out of Your Golden Years." The book gives seniors affirmative plans for dealing with physical, mental, and the other universal problems that often go together with the aging process.

Reading the chapters of David's book is like correspondence from an old friend. It is similar to reading a warm, friendly letter, full of stories and practical pointers for making life more meaningful.

David's love for and appreciation of nature is contagious. His descriptive phrases make you feel the touch of your dog's nose against your hand, hear the ocean tides moving toward you on the beach, or see an entire acre of garden flowers and vegetables. He suggests, "Watch the leaves and branches moving with the wind. Observe the ferns moving on a gentle forest breeze." Or, "If you visit the seashore...watch the endless waves, open your mind, and encounter the God who is with us...unnoticed."

The chapters on pain and chronic illness are filled with information and steps to deal with anger and resentment, anxiety and fear, feelings of guilt, and depression. The final chapters "Moving On" and "Concepts to Remember" offer the ingredients to implement the freedom of choice to modify and improve the direction of our lives.

These true stories from life are heartwarming, and the lessons we can learn from David are profound. The spiritual moments and inspirational prayers are thought provoking and meaningful.

This book should be available in every Senior Center, Public Library, and on the coffee table of every home. It is full of practical pointers for positive living for all ages.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Senior Advises other Seniors on the Challenges of Aging, August 4, 2006

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Marlys M. Styne "Author of 'Reinventing Mysel... (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Senior Moments: Getting the Most Out of Your Golden Years (Paperback)

David Wayne Silva's Senior Moments: Getting the Most Out of Your Golden Years (Outskirts Press, 2005) is a self-help book and an autobiography by a senior citizen for other seniors. This book is a series of appropriately-titled chapters about the inevitable challenges of aging and the experiences of the author and his friends in dealing with them.

In the first chapter, "Thoughts on Time," Silva writes, "Time that seemed endless in our youth now flies by with brutal resolution." However, one positive aspect of aging is that mentally active seniors can learn to savor every moment. "We see beauty in people, flowers, sunsets, and our animal friends," becoming more aware of the beauty that surrounds us. This book shows how Silva and his friends have done exactly that. The author offers a great deal of practical advice.

In chapters including "The Christmas Tree," "Another New Year's Day," and "Valentine's Day," Silva deals with loss and how to find comfort on what could be lonely, depressing holidays. He finds comfort not only in memories, but in observing flowers, pets, even squirrels, and listening to crickets around him. He also finds comfort in his strong religious faith and includes a short prayer at the end of each chapter, yet he does not claim that religion is the answer for everyone.

Toward the end of the book, Silva mentions his own serious health problems in "On Sleepless Nights," "Thoughts on Pain," and "Chronic Illness," but with few complaints. He retains his focus on the positive side of aging, emphasizing in another chapter that "Living Means Growing." He suggests that we ask ourselves, "Am I still growing? Have I given in to aging and the conditions that growing old brings to our lives?" This book will help the senior reader who answers "No" to the first question and "Yes" to the second to improve his or her life.

Californian David Wayne Silva, a former teacher, school administrator, and family and grief counselor, comes through as a friendly, outgoing, caring senior I would like to meet and talk with. This book should appeal to and comfort anyone old enough to be thinking seriously about the problems of aging, issues almost everyone will face eventually.