Champion Your Health: Older Adults Month 2026
May is Older Americans Month! The 2026 theme is Champion Your Health, and focuses on the roles played by prevention and wellness in healthy aging. The titles below, selected by librarians at The Seattle Public Library, explore topics such as taking an active role in managing your health, advocating for yourself, accessing preventative care, and making informed decisions that support independence.
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100 Questions & Answers About Medicare
100 Questions & Answers About Medicare For Dummies is an informational guide that provides clear, concise answers to common questions about the Medicare program in the United States. Organized in a question-and-answer format, the book addresses eligibility, enrollment procedures, coverage options, and patient rights and responsibilities. It is intended to assist individuals, caregivers, and families in understanding and navigating Medicare-related healthcare decisions. (Publisher description)
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The Crone Zone
A crone-inspired lifestyle guide centered on connecting with the wisdom of age, understanding one's own desires, and learning to do as one pleases. (Publisher description)
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Unapologetic Aging
Unapologetic Aging gently unravels the toxic messages of anti-aging and diet culture, helping you let go of rigid rules and tune into what truly nourishes and delights you. When you stop fighting your body, you make room for vitality, self-trust, and joy. Midlife and beyond isn't a crisis to manage--though it may feel like one sometimes. It's a powerful unfolding. It's not a time to shrink or submit to yet more rules, but a time to rise into your fullest self. You can age with confidence, ease, and deep self-respect. Unapologetically. (Publisher description)
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Age in Place or Find A New Space
You want to stay in your home as you get older - but do you really know what that takes? Do you know what it will cost? And how will you know when aging in place is no longer the right option? Discover how virtual rehab, robotics, voice-controlled environments, and even hologram technology can create homes that don't just house you - they actively support you. But this isn't just about high-tech solutions. Carol brings her signature MacGyver-style mindset to every chapter, offering scrappy, budget-friendly hacks alongside cutting-edge possibilities - proving that you don't need to spend a fortune to build a home you love. (Publisher description)
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Adaptive Tai Chi
Adaptive Tai Chi is an innovative approach that makes Tai Chi accessible and beneficial to people with a range of body conditions or ambulatory impairment. (Publisher description)
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The End of My Life Is Killing Me
In this memoir, the author faces life's biggest curveball only to find resilience in the most unlikely places. After Annabelle Gurwitch received an out-of-the blue diagnosis of Stage 4 lung cancer, an existential dread set in. But instead of turning into a cancer warrior, Annabelle declared herself a cancer slacker. Her motto: no runs, no ribbons, no religion. (NoveList)
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Balance Exercises for Seniors
With this fully illustrated, step-by-step guide - complete with exclusive instructional videos (accessible via QR code or URL) - you'll have everything you need to enhance mobility, build strength, and restore stability from the comfort of your home. (Publisher description)
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10-Minute Chair Yoga Exercises For Seniors: 40 Poses To Build Strength And Flexibility For Fall Prevention
Keeping ourselves in motion becomes even more important as we age. This guide for seniors makes it easy to stay stronger for longer with safe and simple chair yoga! Step-by-step instructions and helpful illustrations explain how to improve flexibility, strengthen balance, and help relieve aches and pains with poses and routines that you can do from a chair in just 10 minutes. (Publisher description)
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Shibui
Discover "shibui" - the Japanese philosophy of finding the simple, subtle beauty that emerges with time. Through watercolor illustrations, personal stories, and mindfulness reflections, this book offers Eastern wisdom to help readers embrace healthy aging with joy and grace. (Publisher description)
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The Strength Training Bible for Seniors
The Strength Training Bible for Seniors combines four books to cover all your workout stretching, core strength, weight training, and kettlebell workouts to help you build muscle, tone your body, be flexible, and be your best. The Strength Training Bible for Seniors presents functional exercises carefully adapted and tested to provide comprehensive and customizable total-body workouts for people fifty years and older. (Publisher description)
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