Brain fitness to prevent Alzheimer’s + When you and adult child don’t get along + Relationships after kids have moved out

Gary Small, author of The Alzheimer’s Prevention Program.

Topic: Keep your brain healthy for the rest of your life.

Issues: How to improve virtually every type of memory task—from where you left the keys to never forgetting a name; brain teasers to cross-train the brain to sharpen your mind and promote brain efficiency; the importance of healthy nutrition.

Joshua Coleman, author of When Parents Hurt.

Topic: Compassionate strategies when you and your grown child don’t get along.

Issues: What happens when people lose the opportunity to be the parents they desperately wanted to be; mourning the loss of a harmonious relationship with a child; maintaining self-esteem through difficult times; strategies for rebuilding relationships or learning to accept what can’t be changed.

Karen Stabiner, author of The Empty Nest.

Topic: The truth about relationships, love, and freedom after the kids fly the coop.

Issues: How life changes when the kids leave home; changing relationships with young adult children; changing relationships between parents once the kids are gone; differences between the ways mothers and fathers cope with the empty nest.