Guide To Healthy Aging After 50: What You Need To Know

by Don Everett Bitle

Overview

Don Everett Bitle's Guide to Healthy Aging After 50: What You Need to Know is a catch-all for folks who are 50 and better, and want some direction on how to stay that way. Here is a demographic that has reached the sweet spot where health and energy can be optimized, and life wholeheartedly enjoyed. In this smartly written book, older adults will find counsel on such subjects as supplanting bad habits with healthier ones, how to make the most of the gym, and healthy eating. Throughout, Bitle ups the ante by sharing his own experiences and healthy habits. Rather than insisting that its audience wade through a tangle of highly technical terminology or become de-facto PhDs on the subject, Guide to Healthy Aging After 50 takes a gentler approach. With its easy language and abundance of pragmatic advice, the guide offers a hopeful roadmap for older adults keen to sustain a healthy life for many years to come.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781525505270
Publisher:	FriesenPress
Publication date:	10/23/2017
Pages:	58
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.25(d)

About the Author

Growing up, author Don Everett Bitle was never very healthy. Often sick, skinny, and significantly deprived of athletic abilities, Bitle sought to turn things around. He started running after high school, and lifting weights at a local gym. In no time, he was rewarded for his efforts. Early employment in the food and semiconductor manufacturing industries taught him about discipline and details, and a degree in exercise and movement sealed the deal.

Bitle has thrived for many years as the recreation and wellness director of a major retirement community in Eugene, Oregon, where he takes great delight in his work with octo- and nonagenarians. Bearing witness to their health challenges prompted his reflection on whether these seniors might've fared better if they'd had access to a guide to staying healthier.

Bitle, a father and grandfather, lives with his wife of more than 45 years in Oregon's Eugene-Springfield area.

Editorial Reviews

2018-01-06
A recreation and wellness professional details his advice for seniors who wish to preserve their health in this debut guide.Bitle explains that early on, people develop habits that they can get away with as young people but which will bear heavier consequences if maintained in later years. He homes in on diet and exercise in particular. The book stresses the importance of not overexerting oneself when starting an exercise routine and provides information about what amount of activity people might be able to handle based on how many complicating health issues they have. The sections on exercise are the most useful and comprehensive, as this is clearly the author's area of expertise. Bitle next takes readers to task over bad habits like smoking and drinking. The author also touches on pain medication in this section and warns against using it, suggesting readers instead explore alternative medicines and chiropractic methods, unfortunately crossing into controversial territory here. This section, like many others in the book, lacks citations. There is much to be said about the use of pain medications by seniors, but the author is not a doctor and fails to present scientific research to back up his claims. There is a brief section on financial planning, which is an intriguing addition to a health book, although the advice is very general. The nutritional information will sound familiar to many readers, but here again are some claims that lack citations. The same goes for the portion on mental health. This part, with tips on keeping the mind sharp, could have been more substantial given that this is a common concern for seniors. The concluding section includes a great self-massage activity and helpfully recaps the main points of the book. The writing throughout is straightforward and lucid.An easy and motivating read for health-conscious seniors that lacks the science to support some of its recommendations.

Kirkus Review