Aging and Renewal: Actualizing Our LIves

This book offers a vision of renewal as one encounters the novel obstacles of later life, showing that aging can be a season not only of decline but of discovery. Caring for the body is explored in depth through six case studies—skin, feet, hands, teeth, senses, and colon—each illustrating the paradox that what once solved a problem can later become its cause. From these stories emerges a broader reflection on the basic triad of well-being: keeping consciousness, mobility, and the social di...