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The Benefits and Challenges of Living a Long Life
PublicAffairs
March 2008
On Sale: March 1, 2008
608 pages
ISBN: 1586485539
EAN: 9781586485535
Hardcover
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A pioneering, Pulitzer Prize winning doctor reflects on the
recent unprecedented leap in human life expectancy--and what
we must do to take advantage of it. Pulitzer-prize winning author Dr. Robert Butler coined the
term "ageism" and made "Alzheimer's" a familiar word. Now he
brings his formidable knowledge and experience in aging
issues to a recent and unprecedented achievement: the
extension of human life expectancy by thirty years. As
Butler shows, our society has not yet adapted to this change. The U.S. has not made a research investment in aging. Only
eleven medical schools out of 145 have geriatrics
departments compared to England where geriatrics is the
number two specialty. We have not solidified private pension
plans or strengthened Social Security to ensure that people
do not outlive their resources. In this urgent and
ultimately optimistic book, Dr. Butler shows why and how we
must re-examine our personal and societal approach to aging
right now, so that the boomers and the generations that
follow may have a financially secure, vigorous, and healthy
final chapter life.
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