Getting Wise about Getting Old: Debunking Myths about Aging

As the world’s population ages, our economies are doomed—doomed to higher retirement and medical costs, lower productivity, and lower economic growth. Or so you would think from the tone of media coverage of aging. Getting Wise about Getting Old debunks that myth and many more, in the process painting a far more accurate and nuanced portrait of old age. In this book, experts address persistent stereotypes about aging on a broad array of social issues—from retirement (attacking the myth that...