The Oxford Book of Aging

by Thomas R. Cole and Mary C. Winkler

Book Overview

Most of us today can expect to live into our seventies in reasonably good health. (In fact, the fastest growing segment of the population is the group eighty-five and older.) Yet our culture offers few convincing ways to help us find purpose in our later years. The ancient and medieval vision of aging as a mysterious part of the eternal order of things has given way to the secular, scientific, and individualistic outlook of modernity. No longer seen...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019507369X
• ISBN13: 9780195073690
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 8.5"

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