The anthropologist Germaine Tillion, a member of the French Resistance and deported to a concentration camp, was still working on the eve of her death. Back from that horror, she decided to laugh until the last minute, waking up around her a group of friendship, mutual help and joy that lasted until she turned 101.
For many, the entry into old age makes it all loss: memory, freshness, brain ... but this book shows, on the contrary, that resilience is also possible in the elderly.
Psychologists, neurologists, psychiatrists, geriatricians, and even a veterinarian, who brings together this work help us understand how involved in this vital process are the bonds of attachment, interactions or memory, but also emotions, motivation, humor and music. A book with valuable lessons that are worth incorporating into the luggage of our lives.