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Old Age
Language: en
Pages: 162
Authors: Michael Kinsley
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-26 - Publisher: Crown

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Vanity Fair columnist Michael Kinsley escorts his fellow Boomers through the door marked "Exit." The notorious baby boomers—the largest age cohort in history�
Aging and Old Age
Language: en
Pages: 388
Authors: Richard A. Posner
Categories: Family & Relationships
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Observing that people change both physically and cognitively as they age, Posner suggests that each of us has, in succession, two separate selves - younger and
Old Age
Language: en
Pages: 115
Authors: Helen Luke
Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-03 - Publisher: SteinerBooks

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In Speech of the Grail, storyteller and ceremonialist Linda Sussman explores a new way to speak, one that heals and transforms. She takes for her guide Wolfram
A History of Old Age
Language: en
Pages: 358
Authors: Pat Thane
Categories: Family & Relationships
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Seven contributors examine how the best thinkers and artists of each historical epoch in the West have treated old age. Full of surprising and fascinating facts
Old Age, New Science
Language: en
Pages: 299
Authors: Hyung Wook Park
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-09 - Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

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Between 1870 and 1940, life expectancy in the United States skyrocketed while the percentage of senior citizens age sixty-five and older more than doubled—a p