Award-Winning and Acclaimed Titles
Living Now Gold Award Winner – 2016
Becoming the primary caregiver for a spouse, parent, adult child, friend or other loved one can be both rewarding and challenging. The caregiver’s journey includes unexplored paths and unexpected detours that are new to both you and the person for whom you are caring. How do find you find answers to all the questions that arise? And, as you invest your time, energy, and strength into caregiving, how do you maintain your own health and mental well-being?
The Complete Caregiver’s Organizer: Your Guide to Caring for Yourself While Caring for Others is designed to help you provide the best possible care to others without neglecting your own needs. Based on advice from a variety of healthcare professionals, care managers and attorneys, along with firsthand caregiving experience, author Robin Porter offers direct and attainable strategies for managing common issues that all caregivers face, from basic health and safety concerns, to complex medical and legal questions. Whether you’re a first-time caregiver struggling with questions about where to start or one with more experience who is feeling overwhelmed, the tips and tools in this book will start to bring balance back to your life.
Living Now Gold Award Winner – 2014
Is your lack of organizations impacting your ability to effectively manage your diabetes? Do you run out of supplies and forget endocrinologist appointments? Do you find snacks in your pantry that expired sometime before the insulin pump was invented? Do you struggle to keep track of healthcare invoices and payments? If you answered “yes,” you need The Complete Diabetes Organizer: Your Guide to a Less Stressful and More Manageable Diabetes Life.
Within the pages of this book, diabetes educator Susan Weiner and organizing guru Leslie Josel provide you with dependable strategies and ideas designed to help you streamline your diabetes care and simplify your life. From her distinguished career and experience in the fields of diabetes and dietetics, Susan Weiner brings helpful tips and tricks guaranteed to ease daily diabetes management.
Recommended by the American Cancer Society
Promoting Wellness for Prostate Cancer Patients is a unique educational book for individuals dealing with the many aspects of prostate cancer, from prevention to treatment and managing the common (and not so common) side effects of conventional therapy.
In this fully updated Fourth Edition, Dr. Mark Moyad covers the latest advancements in prostate cancer treatment while providing his trademark no-nonsense analysis on groundbreaking research that is currently underway. A new series of “Quick Tips” run throughout the book, where Dr. Moyad shares his secrets to improving overall health and vitality.
The second edition of this book quickly became one of the most widely distributed prostate cancer books in the world and has been translated into multiple languages.
Dr. Mark Moyad is the Jenkins/Pokempner Director of Preventive/Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical Center in the Department of Urology. During his 25+ year career helping patients, he has focused his research and lectures on the power of lifestyle changes to improve overall mental, physical and spiritual wellness, while also enhancing the impact of conventional treatments. He is the author of over 150 published medical journal articles and 15 academic and consumer books, and has given thousands of lectures around the world to the public and healthcare professionals in virtually every medical specialty.
Living Now Silver Award Winner – 2015
For centuries, humans have been seeking the elusive fountain of youth – a cure for old age. From wrinkle creams and cosmetic surgery, to dietary supplements and hormone therapy, entire industries thrive on our reluctance to grow old.
But suppose up to 75% of how long we live and much of how well we age are determined by lifestyle? While scientists disagree on how to prevent the effects of aging, most agree that you can significantly influence how well you age. In Better With Age: Your Blueprint for Staying Smart, Strong and Happy for Life, author Robin Porter provides strategies to start as early as your 50s and 60s to empower yourself to live an active, healthy, engaged later life.
Whether you are planning your retirement or helping to identify the best resources for our aging parents, this book will help make those senior years the happiest, healthiest possible.
Recommended by The American Heart Association
Heart disease has long been thought of as a men’s issue when it is actually the leading cause of death in both men and women. In fact, since 1984, more American women than men have died of heart disease.
But suppose up to 75% of how long we live and much of how well we age are determined by lifestyle? While scientists disagree on how to prevent the effects of aging, most agree that you can significantly influence how well you age. In Better With Age: Your Blueprint for Staying Smart, Strong and Happy for Life, author Robin Porter provides strategies to start as early as your 50s and 60s to empower yourself to live an active, healthy, engaged later life.
An Ageless Women’s Guide to Heart Health is every woman’s guidebook to enjoying a heart-healthy life – and as importantly, recognizing the symptoms of heart attacks in women, which can differ dramatically from those of men. Renowned cardiologist Dr. Elizabeth “Lisa” Jackson shares tips and resources to help you make positive steps toward improving your health. Whether you’re younger or older, fit or ailing, it’s never too late to make changes in your life that can lead you – and those you love – to a healthier heart.
Dr. Jackson, MD, MPH, is an attending cardiologist at the University of Michigan Health Center and has focused her research on women’s cardiovascular health and cardiovascular prevention. She is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular disease and is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology.