Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Aging ...But Were Afraid to Ask!

by Marlene Jensen

Overview

The operating manual — for your life as you age!

 

Aging ain't for sissies! There's trouble coming your way. And choices to make. Avoid "gurus" out there — all insisting their way is the only way. We didn't put up with that when we were young — why start now?

 

The only good plan for your future is YOUR plan! Here's a look at all your choices on retirement, money, health, love, sex, death, contributing to society, and having the fun of your life!

 

Contains sections on: looks, ageism, health, legal, mental, retirement, money, where to live, starting your own business, fun!, volunteering, love, sex, aging alone and death.

 

For yourself — or a 50+ friend!

Product Details

BN ID:	2940164621346
Publisher:	JGF Press
Publication date:	11/16/2020
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Marlene Jensen’s Everything Aging book started with a blog she launched (SeniorDefender.net) in 2017. She was 70 years old and shocked, worried and appalled at this aging stuff she was suddenly facing. 

Previously Jensen was a:

• VP Publisher at CBS
• A consultant on marketing at ABC, Food Network, etc.
• An entrepreneur — with dozens of startups launched
• A professor of marketing and pricing at Lock Haven University (now emeritus). 

Jensen is also the author of four books on pricing strategy.

In her “retirement” she continues her blog, offers courses on pricing strategy, and offers free advice to would-be entrepreneurs — through volunteering with SCORE and through her free website Help4Entrepreneurs.com

Sadly, none of the above has prepared her for the onslaught of marketers who now think her daily interests/needs consist solely of hearing aids, wheel chairs, adult diapers, medi-alert buttons, medications, and bath tubs you walk into.

Editorial Reviews

2020-10-22
A wide-ranging manual focuses on the pleasures and pitfalls of aging in the 21st century.

Jensen opens her delightfully optimistic book, ironically enough, on a gloomy note: Many elements of 21st-century society genuinely seem geared to taking advantage of older people, even preying on them. These include judges, doctors, attorneys, pharmaceutical companies, and, of course, nursing homes, which “can imprison us against our will and drug us when we object.” But the author assures her readers that these factors need not be the only aspects of the admittedly daunting prospect of growing older. It’s possible, she maintains, for older people to reinvent themselves in their later years. In the course of her book, she examines many features of aging, from retirement and employment opportunities (including starting a business) to physical training and finding late-in-life romance. Jensen proposes dozens of alternatives for her readers about things to do with their time, often working in notes of personal humor that run throughout the book. “Volunteer work, chats with friends, book reading are all good for afternoons,” she writes. “Nights in the summer are for Mets games—I actually got tears in my eyes when MLB started its precarious short 2020 season.” She straightforwardly addresses practical matters like money (noting that more people are afraid of running out of funds than they are of actually dying), dispensing practical advice about maintaining a budget in retirement and supplementing social safety net payments with personal savings. The tone the author uses is a perfectly chosen combination of tough empiricism (there are no cuddly euphemisms here) and uplifting enthusiasm that allows her to warn against things like Social Security thieves and provide upbeat tips on such activities as volunteering and adopting an aging dog. Older readers worried about some facets of the stage of life they’re entering will find Jensen’s manual consistently helpful and invigorating.

A straightforward and utterly engaging one-stop guide to growing older.

Kirkus Reviews