The longevity revolution [electronic resource] : the benefits and challenges of living a long life / Robert N. Butler.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
PublicAffairs,
c2008.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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The Longevity Revolution: The Benefits and Challenges of Living a Long Life |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Contents:
- What is the longevity revolution?
- The new longevity is the biggest challenge
- "The greedy geezer": the manufactured clash of the generations
- Ageism: another form of bigotry
- The changing family and longevity
- The disorders of longevity
- Human interest in longevity: the power of research
- Alzheimer's: the epidemic of the twenty-first century
- The "biology of extended time": evolution and longevity
- Cycles, clocks, and power plants: longevity science and aging research
- Toward a prescription for longevity and quality of life: health promotion and disease prevention
- Redesigning health care for an older America
- Live longer, work longer: productive engagement
- Social Security: self-responsibility, and the state
- The private sector: providence and risk--the role of the marketplace
- The politics of aging and longevity
- Population solutions to longevity: transition to stable populations
- Worldwide democratization of longevity: overcoming famine, war, and pestilence
- Threats to longevity: could we lose the longevity revolution?
- The good life: quality of life in the era of longevity
- Imagining longevity: challenges of the future.