Extraordinary Forms Of Aging PDF Download

Aging comes with many challenges. It is well known that as a society we are living much longer thanks to improved living conditions and health care. While being able to reach old age is something to be thankful for, in many ways, there are several challenges facing the elderly, which we all need to pay more attention to. Often it is not until we start to age ourselves or we see a loved one struggling that we sit up and take notice, but as a society, we can do more to make life easier for our aging population. This book takes a clear-headed, cold-blooded, practical, and unemotional methodological approach to the myriad subjects that form the aging landscape, especially for the really old. This book observes older people and researches all of the aspects of elder-land, including frequent journeys into the medical complexes that have grown exponentially with the aging of the baby boomers. You will be taken down the road of things to come, and it is not all the golden years crap that you've heard about. We've all watched far too many people age badly and make some serious errors. For some of them, their mistake was simply living too long. We are constantly fed stories about people doing young things at an old age and are told that we can, too, if only we have the right attitude. The author thinks that's a bunch of baloney. Sure you could go skydiving at my age-once. But, if you survived you may never be able to walk again. The truth is that those people who do exceptional physical things at an advanced age are "EXCEPTIONAL!" Most of us need to keep our aging legs firmly planted on solid ground and get rid of the silly notions that we, too, can be exceptional. Most of us have been a victim of the advertising hype, but until we have gone through the emotional and psychological transformation of aging we really don't get it.