After a chance encounter with an extraordinary ninety-yearold, renowned gerontologist Karl Pillemer wondered what older people know about life that the rest of us don't. His quest led him to interview more than one thousand Americans over the age of sixty-five to seek their counsel on all the big issues: children, marriage, money, career, and aging. And he found that he consistently heard advice that pointed to these thirty lessons for living.

Product Description: This book, Ageing and Invisibility, is the result of two years of research and part of the European Union (EU) FP7 project SENIOR (social, ethical and privacy needs in ICT for older people). The project was initiated to provide a systematic assessment of the social, ethical and privacy issues surrounding the use of computers and information technology for and by an ageing population...read more

This book examines the issues and implications that mental health professionals face when dealing with ageing and older adults. The book focuses on the biological, psychological and cultural influences that impact on the work of mental health practitioners who work with this client group. Based on current empirical research and evidence-based practical issues this book explores topics including: ageing and dementia elder abuse caring for older adults depression and ageing the paradox of ageing how older adults are key to the success of future generations. Throughout the book the contributors emphasise the notion of ‘healthy ageing,' and the importance and significance of this concept as part of the life-cycle process. As such Ageing and Older Adult Mental Health will be key reading not only for mental health professionals, but also for those involved in policy making for older adults.

Product Description: Habits such as regular exercise are well known to be linked to better health in older adults. Far less is understood about behaviors that contribute to the optimally aging mind. This may be a reason why only about 25% of elders meet the standards for optimal cognitive aging...read more

Product Description: This volume provides a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary overview of the aging lung, written by the main researchers in the field. Current physiological, cellular and molecular understanding of how the lungs age and the relationship to age-associated lung diseases will be presented...read more

Product Description: Aging Men, Masculinities and Modern Medicine explores the multiple socio-historical contexts surrounding men’s aging bodies in modern medicine from a global perspective. The first of its kind, it investigates the interrelated aspects of aging, masculinities and biomedicine, allowing for a timely reconsideration of the conceptualisation of aging men within the recent explosion of social science studies on men’s health and biotechnologies including anti-aging perspectives...read more

Product Description: Each title in the highly acclaimed Opposing Viewpoints series explores a specific issue by placing expert opinions in a unique pro/con format; the viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected and often hard-to-find publications...read more

Product Description: Enormous advances in our knowledge of genetic contributions to aging and disease, and in our understanding of the potential for manipulation of the aging process, have taken place during the past 20 years. This is the first volume in decades to consolidate this research in one place...read more

Product Description: How should we accept growing old? It?s an inevitable progression, and yet in Western society the very subject is often taboo and shrouded in anxiety and shame. In this timely and essential book internationally renowned psychologist and bestselling author Marie de Hennezel offers a fresh perspective, confronting the inevitable grief we experience at the loss of our youth and showing why we should look forward to embracing everything aging has to offer...read more

Product Description: A groundbreaking approach to aging from one of France's best- known clinical psychologists. How should we accept growing old? It's an inevitable progression and yet in Western society the very subject of aging is often taboo and shrouded in anxiety and shame...read more

Egocentricity is characteristically human. It is natural for our prime in­ terest to be ourselves and for one of our major concerns to be what affects us personally. Aging and death - universal and inevitable­ have always been of compelling concern. Mystical explanations were invented when scientific answers were lacking. and gross physiologi­ As scientific knowledge developed, anatomy cal processes were explained, and the roles of the endocrine glands were revealed. Since the sex hormones obviously lose some of their potency with age, it was logical to assume that they played the major role in declining general well-being. The puzzle of aging would now be solved. The Ponce de Leon quest would soon be fulfilled. Pseudoscientists and quacks rushed in where most scientists feared to tread. By the time the glowing promises of perpetual youth through gland transplants and injections had proved illusory, serious study of the aging process had been set back for years. The field had lost "respect­ ability," and most capable scientists shunned it. Those who did con­ tinue to seek answers to its tough questions deserve special recognition.

Product Description: At age 75, Oleda Baker looks and moves like a woman in her early 40s. She has never had a facelift, and according to her doctor, her yearly checkup scores are consistently those of a healthy person at least 25 years younger. She is a living example that using the best medical anti-aging discoveries and practicing a healthy lifestyle both on the inside and outside works to keep you youthful and energetic at every age...read more