In addition to having significant emotional and medical connotations, aging involves many scientific questions. This book explores not only the changes suffered by our major biological systems as we age, but also examines the intangible changes the thinking and feeling, mood, sexuality, personality traits and memory. Based on over thirty years of pioneering research in this field, how and why we age defines the difference between biological age and chronological age, and see how our understanding of aging has changed throughout history. The author, one of the leading gerontologists today, analyzes the common prejudices and think about medical and ethical dilemmas posed by the possibility of manipulating the delay aging and death. For all public and especially for the elderly and their families and all those who care for the elderly from different perspectives and from different profes...read more
