SENIOR SELF-DEFENSE THAT WORK: A Practical Guide to Staying Safe, Preventing Falls, Using a Cane, and Protecting Yourself in Everyday Life

Growing older should never mean surrendering your dignity, confidence, or ability to protect yourself.In this practical and deeply human guide, Harold Laski, MD, combines decades of medical experience, real-world guardianship evaluations, behavioral observation, and personal insight to create a realistic approach to senior self-defense and personal safety. This is not a flashy martial arts manual filled with impossible kicks and athletic fantasies. It is a thoughtful system designed for ordinary older adults living ordinary lives in an increasingly unpredictable world.Through clear explanations, humor, real-life stories, awareness training, balance recovery techniques, cane and walker strategies, home safety concepts, verbal boundary setting, and practical everyday habits, this book teaches readers how to think, move, and respond more safely without fear or intimidation.Whether you are a senior, caregiver, healthcare professional, or family member, this book offers something far more valuable than bravado. It offers preparedness, confidence, and the understanding that age does not eliminate the right to feel safe.Because real self-defense is not about fighting.It is about staying upright, staying aware, and getting home safely. Read more