Aging…Get Over It! is the first of the books Baby Boomers and GenXers need to read to gain mastery over their later years. Aging…Get Over It! eases the effort of facing the realities of aging and offers workable solutions. The lessons and exercises are divided into two categories and are further broken down into six tasks:Part l. Think Right: Healthy Mind, Satisfying Family Relationships, and Strong FaithPart 2. Do Right: Healthy Body, Financial-Legal Arrangements, and Rewarding Community and Care Planning.This is a highly practical and gutsy survival manual for everyone over 50 who intends to maintain control over the rest of their lives. midwestbookreview.com/sbw/nov_17.htm#selfhelp The Self-Help Shelf Aging...Get Over It! Anne Harbison Lucas Gatekeeper Press doityourselfaging.com9781619845350, $24.95, PB, 324pp, amazon.com Synopsis:"Aging...Get Over It!: Do-It-Yourself-Aging/A Survival Manual" byAnne Harbison Lucas is the first of the books Baby Boomers and GenXers willneed to read in order to gain mastery over their later years. "Aging...Get Over It!" eases the effort of facing the realities ofaging and offers workable solutions. The lessons and exercises are divided intotwo categories and are further broken down into six tasks: Part l. Think Right:Healthy Mind, Satisfying Family Relationships, and Strong Faith Part 2. DoRight: Healthy Body, Financial-Legal Arrangements, and Rewarding Community andCare Planning. Author Anne Lucas began her career in elder care in 1989 when she stepped outof graduate school and right into the management of large, independent,assisted living and memory care facilities. She moved on to become a "MaryPoppins" figure, swooping in to save the day for clients in her privategeriatric care management practice. Working with individuals and their familiesas a trusted partner, Anne dealt with any number of difficult (and sometimespreventable) aging issues, including money shortages, psychological problems,legal wrangling, Alzheimer's disease, and difficult deaths. In this sense, Anneshared the journey to old age along with her clients many times over. Critique: In "Aging...Get Over It!" she draws upon her years ofexperience and expertise to produce this highly practical and gutsy survivalmanual for everyone over 50 who intends to maintain control over the rest oftheir lives. "Aging...Get Over It!" is exceptionally well written,organized and presented, making it an ideal and unreservedly recommendedaddition to personal, senior center, and community library Self-Help /Self-Improvement instructional reference collections. It should be noted forpersonal reading lists that "Aging...Get Over It!" is also availablein a digital book edition (Kindle, $9.95). Aging...Get Over It! A Survival Manual (from Journal of Aging LifeCare Fall 2017) Anne Harbison Lucas, Gatekeeper Press, $24.95, 253 pages plus AppendicesAnne Harbison Lucas is a semi-retired Aging Life Care Specialist . Like many of her peers, she regretted thatclients didn't reach out for guidance until they were already in crisismode. To make the case for pre-planningand team building more compelling she wrote Aging...Get Over It! A SurvivalManual. Anne opens by underscoring howimportant it is that mature adults take responsibility for themselves if theywant to remain in control of their own lives. The book identifies six aspectsof aging well as assignments (tasks). Thefirst three of those - mental health, family, and faith - are personal in nature,followed by physical health, financial / legal concerns, and community issues. Drawing on experience in teaching, business,facility administration, and private geriatric care in several states, Anne usescase studies, expert evidence and useful ideas to bring clarity and focus tothe narrative. Anne is not an expert inall the topics she introduces, but she does an equitable job of referring readersto appropriate professionals and other books for deeper study. The companion website doityourselfaging.comcontains the basic resources from the book, plus a blog and a Leaders Guide foruse by professionals or community groups.What I like is that direction to Key Team Members is featuredprominently there on the Home page. The question arises: Does Aging...Get Over It! substitute forthe work of Aging Life Care Specialists?By introducing readers to unfamiliar and unsettling information about gettingolder, Aging...Get Over It! alertsmature adults to pay attention to all the resources available to help thempersonalize their long-term protections.The many exercises in the book require real work, but work that I feel broadensthe scope of how we can be of service. Oneof my clients used the book for just that. I believe that the more this kind ofeducation becomes available the more we will all help mature adults "get overaging" as a negative or burdensome time of life. Submitted by Dianne Reynolds, FHL CareManagement, Orlando, FL. BS Nursing; MSCounseling. Registered Nurse 35 yearsand Professiona