Sharpening the Aging Mind can alleviate many of those fears, and in fact help you to continue an active and productive, happy life. One if the five star reviews of this book sums up a fairly good description of “ Sharpening the Aging Mind is an amazing book to really help baby boomers shift their consciousness about aging. If you've ever set your keys down and couldn't remember where you put them, and then thought perhaps you're getting Alzheimer's, this book is for you. You're not getting Alzheimer’s; you've just slipped into a state of being inattentive." “Dr. Seiden’s Sharpening the Aging Mind gives you tools to sharpen your mind and avoid those scary moments when you really think you're losing it. It dispels the myth that old dogs can't learn new tricks. We actually can learn better than young minds because of our wealth of information as a foundation for generativity. Shapening the Aging Mind is a book that helps you utilize the advantages that age puts before you. We folks over 40 begin to notice our memories are going to hell in a hurry. Scary! We think we're getting Alzheimer's, senility, Dementia, etc. Sharpening the Aging Mind will dispel these fears and myths and give you real tools to keep your mind in tact, in shape and sharp as a tack! The mind is much like a muscle in that disuse causes atrophy while with exercise the mind can grow and develop in people more than 100 years of age... Written by a doctor and a psychologist, Sharpening the Aging Mind is a familiar prescription for their patients and now they are releasing it to the Boomer Generation, who number more than their individual practices can handle! Table of Chapter 1 ~ What’s the Problem? Chapter 2 ~ Myths About Mental Deterioration Chapter 3 ~ How the Mind Works Chapter 4 ~ How the Mind Dysfunctions Chapter 5 ~ Apathy to Atrophy... Stimulation to Sharpness! Chapter 6 ~ Your Memory is Better Than You Think Chapter 7 ~ Exercising the Mind Chapter 8 ~ Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias Chapter 9 ~ Keeping up the Circulation and Aeration Chapter 10 ~Don’t Poison Those Delicate Fibers Chapter 11 ~ Your New Lifestyle Appendix 1 ~ Resources Appendix 2 ~ Quit Smoking Now (also available as a separate book in Kindle format) This is added free to this book because smoking is such a damaging factor to memory and cognitive brain functions. About the Authors Other Books by Seiden & Bilett Recommended Reading