Why Growing Older Is Awesome, According to the SilverSneakers Community
You have more power over aging than you think. Here’s the proof.
Aches and pains, sorrows and losses—growing older isn’t always a laugh a minute.
Aches and pains, sorrows and losses—growing older isn’t always a laugh a minute.
Growing older is one of the most pervasive preoccupations of humankind. The passing of time is, after all, an inescapable part of the human condition. And aging, like love, is one of the most common themes in literature, be it the calm of poet Robert Brownings’ “Grow old along with me!
This is an interview I did with Barbie Gummin of TLC5. It introduces my upcoming book, Embracing the Aging Process. Look for it soon.… Read the rest
So spake the great geriatrician, psychiatrist and elder advocate, Robert N. Butler, who died in December 2010. According to his biographer, W. Andrew Achenbaum, he helped
“…to transform the study of aging from a marginal specialty into an intellectually vibrant field of inquiry.”… Read the rest