The Longevity Revolution: The Benefits and Challenges of Living a Long Life

The Longevity Revolution: The Benefits and Challenges of Living a Long Life

by Robert N. Butler
The Longevity Revolution: The Benefits and Challenges of Living a Long Life

The Longevity Revolution: The Benefits and Challenges of Living a Long Life

by Robert N. Butler

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Overview

Pulitzer-prize winning author Dr. Robert Butler coined the term "ageism" and made "Alzheimer's" a familiar word. Now he brings his formidable knowledge and experience in aging issues to a recent and unprecedented achievement: the extension of human life expectancy by thirty years. As Butler shows, our society had not yet adapted to this change.

The U.S. has not made a research investment in aging. Only eleven medical schools out of 145 have geriatrics departments compared to England where geriatrics is the number two specialty. We have not solidified private pension plans or strengthened Social Security to ensure that people do not outlive their resources. In this urgent and ultimately optimistic book, Dr. Butler shows why and how we must re-examine our personal and societal approach to aging right now, so that the boomers and the generations that follow may have a financially secure, vigorous, and healthy final chapter life.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781586488550
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: 09/08/2009
Sold by: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format: eBook
Pages: 576
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Physician, gerontologist, psychiatrist, public servant, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Why Survive, Robert N. Butler, MD, was president and CEO of the International Longevity Center.

Table of Contents

Preface     xi
Introduction
What is the Longevity Revolution?     3
Challenges
The New Longevity is the Biggest Challenge     21
"The Greedy Geezer": The Manufactured Clash of the Generations     31
Ageism: Another Form of Bigotry     40
The Changing Family and Longevity     60
The Disorders of Longevity     75
Science
Human Interest in Longevity: The Power of Research     97
Alzheimer's: The Epidemic of the Twenty-First Century     121
The "Biology of Extended Time": Evolution and Longevity     144
Cycles, Clocks, and Power Plants: Longevity Science and Aging Research     162
Solutions
Toward a Prescription for Longevity and Quality of Life: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention     191
Redesigning Health Care for an Older America     214
Live Longer, Work Longer: Productive Engagement     237
Social Security: Self-Responsibility and the State     256
The Private Sector: Providence and Risk-The Role of the Marketplace     278
The Politics of Aging and Longevity     304
Population Solutions to Longevity: Transition to Stable Populations     321
Cautions
Worldwide Democratization of Longevity: Overcoming Famine, War, and Pestilence     343
Threats toLongevity: Could We Lose the Longevity Revolution?     362
Imagining Longevity
The Good Life: Quality of Life in the Era of Longevity     383
Imagining Longevity: Challenges of the Future     395
Tables     403
Notes     441
Bibliography     493
Acknowledgments     531
Index     533
About the Author     559
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