De cibo quod superest nobis sufficit; oportet gratias agere. Some
elders have accepted this proposition, although seldom with enthu-
siasm. Gerontologists also have been burdened with the adage:
"Leftovers are good enough for us, and we should be grateful for
them." I remember how a clerk tried to palm off astale and cheap
cigar to her octogenarian customer. He knew better and carne away
with a far superior smoke. The clerk fumed, "What does he need a
good cigar for? Who is he to be particular!" In this and in many
other ways, elders often have labored under the sociocultural
expectation that they should be well content with whatever scraps
and shmattes happen to come their way. Gerontologists can identify
with this situation. The systematic study of aging and the aged was
a new enterprise at the midpoint of this century, but the concepts
and methods were pretty much limited to those already on hand. What
biological and sociobehavioral scientists had been doing for years
was simply extended to the newly annexed territory. This as not
only a convenient but also a cost-effective strategy. Data
accumulated more rapidly by remaining within familiar frarnes of
reference and relying on farniliar designs and mea- sures. The new
gerontologists soon harvested a promising crop of descriptive
findings. Within a decade after the establishment of the
Gerontological Society of America (1947), it was possible to
discern the outlines of a valuable new field of knowledge.
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