How to age

Format:
book
Title:
How to age
Author:
Karpf, Anne
Year:
2014
URL:
http://www.theschooloflife.com
Language:
English
Publisher:
London : Macmillan, 2014
Description:
149 p. : ill.
Call number:
SJS.BOEK.416.8..KARP.14 (SJS)
ISBN:
9780230768079
Subject:
Ouderen ; psychologie
Summary:
Society has a deep fear of ageing. Old age is increasingly viewed as a biomedical problem, something to be avoided at all costs and then vanished away by medicine. Anne Karpf urges us to change our narrative. Exploring how our outlook on ageing is historically determined and culturally defined, she draws upon case studies, old and new, to suggest how ageing can be an actively enriching time of immense growth. She argues that if we can recognize growing older as an inevitable part of the human condition, then the great challenge of ageing turns out to be none other than the challenge of living.
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