The Successful Aging and Well-Being Workbook is designed to help your clients enhance their existing successful aging behaviors and develop new attitudes about that will improve the quality of their lives as they age. The assessments, activities, and exercises in this workbook, will help your clients set effective successful aging and well-being goals, and help them move forward to living a healthy life.

Many people focus on the negative aspects of aging rather than the positive aspects of living in the present and planning for the future. The purpose of this book is to help people explore the positive aspects of life that can make aging a more meaningful and successful experience.

The seven sections of this workbook include:

Section 1 Quality of Life: This chapter will help participants explore and understand the current quality of their life. Suggestions will be offered to improve their current life.

Section 2 Emotional Agility: This chapter will help participants examine how they are feeling, how satisfied they are, and how hopeful they are about the future. Suggestions will be offered to improve their emotional well-being.

Section 3 Healthy Lifestyle: This chapter will help participants gauge how healthy their current lifestyle is. Suggestions will be made for ensuring proper sleep, nutrition, and exercise.

Section 4 Daily Living: This chapter will help participants explore how well they are functioning daily. Suggestions will be offered to accentuate ways of functioning more effectively.

Section 5 Sense of Humor: This chapter will help participants explore how a sense of humor and laughter can release physical, emotional and mental health benefits for themselves and the people around them.

Section 6 Social Connections: This chapter will help participants explore how socially active and effective they are. Suggestions will promote a healthy nurturing network of family and friends that can be called on for support and ways to offer support to them.

Section 7 Productive Aging: This chapter helps participants explore their use of time and how productive they feel. Suggestions will be provided to enhance work, volunteer, educational, and fun activities.

All of the worksheets, assessments, and activities are reproducible for your convenience.

About the Author

Ester R.A. Leutenberg has worked in the mental health field for many years as a publisher, author, and advocate for those suffering from loss. She personally experienced a devastating loss when her son Mitchell, after struggling with a mental illness for eight years, died by suicide in 1986. Soon after, as a way of both healing and helping others, Ester co-founded Wellness Reproductions & Publishing with her daughter Kathy Khalsa and began developing therapeutic products that help facilitators help their clients.

With Whole Person Associates, Ester has co-written several books and corresponding card decks including: GriefWork ~ Healing from Loss, Breaking Up is Hard to Do, Creating a Healthy Balanced Life, The Complete Caregiver Support Guide, Life Skills to Help Teens Balance Way Too Much, Motivation, and Veterans - Surviving and Thriving after Trauma, Transitional Life Skills for Teens series, and the Optimal Well-Being for Senior Adults series. Visit WholePerson.com for a complete list.

Ester, a breast cancer survivor since 2003, counsels other survivors in overcoming body and loss issues. Ester is a board member of SOS (Survivors of Suicide) in Tucson AZ.

John J. Liptak, EdD has many years of experience in providing counseling services to individuals and groups in a variety of settings including job training programs, correctional institutions, colleges, and universities. In addition, John has years of teaching experience as an adjunct professor at Radford University.

John frequently conducts workshops on assessment-related topics. He has written three books on career-related topics. His books have been featured in numerous newspapers including The Washington Post, and The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. His work has also been featured on MSNBC, CNN Radio, and on the PAX/ION television series, Success without a College Degree.

With Ester and Kathy, he has written three other comprehensive books for teachers and counselors to use with their students and clients: The Self-Esteem Program, The Social Skills Program and The Stress Management Program: Inventories, Activities & Educational Handouts.

Ester and John continue to co-write workbooks and corresponding card decks in each of these series that help facilitators help their teen and adult participants: Coping, Erasing the Stigma of Mental Health Issues through Awareness, Working With Families, Mental Health & Life Skills, Mind-Body Wellness, and Teen Mental Health & Life Skills, all published by Whole Person Associates. Visit WholePerson.com for a complete list.