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Growing Into Your Future Self : A Guide for Healthy Ageing
Growing older is not a story of decline—it is a stage rich with possibility, clarity, and strength. Growing Into Your Future Self is a comprehensive guide for adults aged 65 and beyond, written by geriatrician Dr. Mo Marion, who draws on years of clinical experience, research evidence, and the lived realities of his patients.
This book reframes ageing as an active, purposeful journey rather than a passive slide into frailty. Combining medical expertise with plain, compassionate language, Dr. Marion offers practical strategies that empower older adults to maintain independence, protect their health, and deepen their sense of meaning.
Across ten accessible chapters, readers will learn how
Harness the cognitive strengths that grow with age, including crystallised intelligence, emotional insight, and perspective.
Use movement as medicine, with evidence-based guidance on aerobic exercise, strength training, balance, and sport—including how activities like badminton support longevity.
Protect memory, stimulate the mind, and engage in lifelong learning through reading, teaching, and mentally enriching hobbies.
Build strong social networks, enhance relationships, and cultivate purpose through family roles, friendship, community, and contribution.
Understand and manage anxiety, depression, stress, and grief while embracing forgiveness, letting go, and emotional resilience.
Eat for health and longevity using simple, affordable nutrition strategies grounded in proven research.
Improve sleep quality and recovery, recognise common sleep disorders, and restore restorative rest.
Identify, prevent, and manage common non-communicable diseases—including heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, and dementia—using current meta-analyses and guidelines.
Strengthen financial, physical, social, mental, and time wealth to build a secure and fulfilling later life.
Engage in legacy-building, mentoring, volunteering, and advanced care planning with clarity and confidence.
Complete with checklists, tables, chapter summaries, and illustration placeholders, this guide distils the most important lessons from modern geriatric medicine into clear, actionable steps.
Whether you are entering this stage of life yourself or supporting a loved one, Growing Into Your Future Self offers wisdom, reassurance, and a practical roadmap for ageing with dignity, vitality, and purpose.
This book reframes ageing as an active, purposeful journey rather than a passive slide into frailty. Combining medical expertise with plain, compassionate language, Dr. Marion offers practical strategies that empower older adults to maintain independence, protect their health, and deepen their sense of meaning.
Across ten accessible chapters, readers will learn how
Harness the cognitive strengths that grow with age, including crystallised intelligence, emotional insight, and perspective.
Use movement as medicine, with evidence-based guidance on aerobic exercise, strength training, balance, and sport—including how activities like badminton support longevity.
Protect memory, stimulate the mind, and engage in lifelong learning through reading, teaching, and mentally enriching hobbies.
Build strong social networks, enhance relationships, and cultivate purpose through family roles, friendship, community, and contribution.
Understand and manage anxiety, depression, stress, and grief while embracing forgiveness, letting go, and emotional resilience.
Eat for health and longevity using simple, affordable nutrition strategies grounded in proven research.
Improve sleep quality and recovery, recognise common sleep disorders, and restore restorative rest.
Identify, prevent, and manage common non-communicable diseases—including heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, and dementia—using current meta-analyses and guidelines.
Strengthen financial, physical, social, mental, and time wealth to build a secure and fulfilling later life.
Engage in legacy-building, mentoring, volunteering, and advanced care planning with clarity and confidence.
Complete with checklists, tables, chapter summaries, and illustration placeholders, this guide distils the most important lessons from modern geriatric medicine into clear, actionable steps.
Whether you are entering this stage of life yourself or supporting a loved one, Growing Into Your Future Self offers wisdom, reassurance, and a practical roadmap for ageing with dignity, vitality, and purpose.
91 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 11, 2025
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