The Longevity Revolution: The Benefits and Challenges of Living a Long Life - Couverture rigide

Butler, Robert N.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1586485539 ISBN 13 : 9781586485535

Editeur : PublicAffairs, 2008

Synopsis

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 had 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Physician, gerontologist, psychiatrist, public servant and Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Why Survive , Robert N. Butler, M.D. is president and CEO of the International Longevity Center. In 1975, he became founding director of the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health, and in 1982 he founded the first department of geriatrics in a U.S. medical school at The Mount Sinai Medical Center.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: PublicAffairs
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1586485539
• ISBN 13: 9781586485535
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 576
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible