How to Age with Grace:
Living Your Best Life in Your 70s, 80s, and Beyond

What if you had an owner’s manual to answer your questions about aging?

Now, you do.

How to Age with Grace: Living Your Best Life in Your 70s, 80s, and Beyond answers the ten most pressing questions older adults ask to help them live well now and prepare for the years ahead. Most of us don’t envision the inevitable changes that come with aging. One day, they just seem to appear, bringing with them a host of concerns.

Will I run out of money? Will I be alone without friends, family, or a support system? Will I develop Alzheimer’s or Covid-19? Will I be safe in my home? Will my health deteriorate? Not everyone worries about the same aspects of aging; we each have our own Achilles’ heel.
While there are no magic answers to these questions, the more we understand, the better able we will be to answer them. If there are potential problems, perhaps we can prevent them. If there are suggestions for enhancing our lives, now would be a good time to explore them. Each chapter answers one question thoroughly; and each is both personal and practical, explaining the subject clearly, sharing the author’s experience, calling on the knowledge of many experts, and offering scores of suggestions on how to prevent or deal with the issue.

What makes How to Age with Grace different from other books on aging is that every chapter is accompanied by one or two stand-alone interviews—one with an older person who is experiencing first-hand the subject of the chapter and the other with an expert on the topic.

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Why I Wrote The Book

The idea for the book was born when I found myself having to make several life-altering decisions at the same time—whether to sell my condo and stop living independently, decide where to live instead, give up my car, and close my book-coaching and editing business. I needed more information before I could make these decisions, so I started researching. I realized almost immediately that if I was grappling with these issues, no doubt other people my age were doing so as well. I focused my research on ten questions to which older adults need answers, ranging from how to develop the best attitude about aging to how to talk to my adult children about end-of-life issues.

“Most of us know getting older is hard. What we don’t know are the steps to make it easier for everyone. Bobbi Linkemer helps lower the anxiety for everyone. She spells out what will happen and how all generations can gracefully deal with those changes. As a mother and daughter, I’m finding How to Age with Grace invaluable!”

"This book is such a valuable resource in this day and age. It is filled with a wonderful combination of useful tips and down-to-earth examples."

"Thinking about the issues of aging can be daunting. How to Age with Grace allows you to approach social, emotional, financial and other issues in an organized and thoughtful way. Planning in advance can give you peace of mind knowing you have considered the options and selected those that best serve you and your needs."

"Drawing on her own experiences with aging, Bobbi Linkemer shares well-earned advice for living a happy and healthy life in your later years. Never shaming and always encouraging, Bobbi advocates sensible solutions to the toughest questions older people face. With clear and engaging writing, this book is sure to help anyone who is struggling with the transition to life in their 80s and 90s."

“We are all on our life journey and will face the challenges of aging before we know it. Wouldn’t it be great to find an owner’s manual to help us navigate through this stage of life? We have it. Bobbi Linkemer’s new book, How to "Age with Grace," sheds powerful guidance on how to meet the challenges of aging and maintain grace and dignity during this natural process of life. She shows us how the power of your attitude will carry you through this still vibrant part of your life.”

"As a woman of a certain age, I can attest to the truths within these pages. Had I had access to Bobbi Linkemer’s book, "How to Age with Grace," before leaving professional life, I would have had a much smoother transition into my current circumstances. Planning for one's retirement is good. Extensive planning is better. Precisely focused planning for any endeavor is best. "

"As someone who is as close to 70 as 60, I found "How to Age with Grace Living Your Best Life in Your 70s, 80s, and Beyond" to be refreshingly honest yet encouraging at the same time. Bobbi doesn't sugar-coat the fact that growing old is not for the faint of heart, but instead embraces the facts and offers realistic suggestions on how to evaluate your current life situation and prepare for the changes that might need to be made. This book is a must-read for those of a certain age, as well as grown children who may need to help their parents age with grace."