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How to Live Healthier & Happier & Longer in Retirement

8 Essential Pillars
By Brad Bickford BCD LCSW
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How to Live Healthier & Happier & Longer in Retirement by Brad Bickford BCD LCSW offers practical guidance to navigate the health challenges and emotional changes that come with retirement. The book covers when to retire, maintaining brain health, the vital role of exercise, improving sleep, socialising to prevent emotional decline, and the impact of personal care products on longevity. It also explores communication skills, nutrition adjustments, finding purpose, the benefits of humour, and physiological differences between men and women. Additional topics include managing anxiety, enhancing marriage happiness, coping with bodily changes, and dealing with grief.
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This book is ideal for retirees or those approaching retirement who seek to improve their physical health, emotional well-being, and overall happiness during their later years. It appeals to readers interested in research-based advice on ageing gracefully and maintaining vitality.

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While retirement can be a time of freedom and excitement, it is also fraught with many health changes and emotional challenges.

Brad Bickford, Board Certified Diplomate and Licensed Clinical Social Worker, shows us how to tackle the challenges of aging in retirement and identifies exactly what we can do to address them. Using research data, questionnaires, and worksheets, he discusses:

How to Live Healthier & Happier & Longer in Retirement covers:

How to decide when one is ready to retire.

How to keep our brains healthy and slow down a possible onset of dementia.

How critical exercise is, how often we need to do it, and specifically what kind. He shares why sitting too long for seniors can shorten their life.

How to improve your sleep and why sleep is essential for our health and happiness.

What research and science have found about the importance of socialising to prevent emotional distress, premature dementia, and mortality.

How everyday personal care products affect our body's health and longevity.

What specific communication skills are essential to enhance relationships.

How changing the way we think about something will improve our happiness.

How we have to eat more nutritionally as our aging body changes.

Having a purpose and spiritual focus is very helpful for our emotional well-being.

The importance of regular laughter and humour in our daily lives.

Fascinating physiological differences between men and women, like which sex takes longer to digest the same meal?

And many relevant topics to seniors like sex, drinking, lessening anxiety, bolstering marriage happiness, what to do about aging body physiology changes, and how to deal with grief and loss.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781667888613

Publisher: BookBaby

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 25 April 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: BookBaby

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 215.0mm

Height: 279.0mm

Weight: 648g

Pages: 234

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Brad Bickford BCD LCSW Health & Wellness Non-Fiction Self-Help & Personal Development

About the Author

Brad Bickford, BCD,LCSW is retired from full time psychotherapy practice with over 47 years of experience.
He teaches an adult ed course on "How to Live healthier & Happier & Longer in Retirement" at American University's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute(OLLI) in Washington D.C. Brad lectures nationally to senior groups on this topic.

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