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This book explores the ways people aging past midlife are portrayed in the media; interactions with adult offspring; the esthetics and politics of representation in media; and the incitement to commit suicide for those with early signs of "dementia." The sudden onset of age-related shaming can occur anywhere - the shove in the street, the deaf ear at the meeting, the shut-out by the personnel office or the obtuseness of a government. Turning intimate suffering into public grievances,this book effectively and beautifully argues that overcoming ageism is the next imperative social movement of our time.

Laura Hurd Clarke examines the relationship between aging and women in a culture obsessed with youthfulness. From weight gain, to wrinkles, to sagging skin, to gray hair, the book explores older women's complex and often contradictory feelings about their bodies and the physical realities of growing older. Drawing on in-depth interviews conducted over a ten year period, Hurd Clarke brings alive feminist theories about aging, medical treatments, beauty work, femininity, and the body.

A guide to wisdom, authenticity, and bliss for women as they age by the author of Reviving Ophelia.Women growing older contend with ageism, misogyny, and loss. Yet as Mary Pipher shows, most older women are deeply happy and filled with gratitude for the gifts of life. Their struggles help them grow into the authentic, empathetic, and wise people they have always wanted to be.

Brooks looks at a range of people who have lived joyous, committed lives, and who have embraced the necessity and beauty of dependence.

A Comprehensive Review of Innovative Solutions to Address Global Aging Challenges

As revelatory as Atul Gawande's Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson's Elderhood is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life. For more than 5,000 years, "old" has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans are living longer than ever before, we've made old age into a disease, a condition to be dreaded, denigrated, neglected, and denied.