In his last book, How We Age, Dr. Marc Agronin wrote passionately
about how we need to place greater value on our elders and hope for
a better old age, even in the throes of illness and dementia. But
he doesn't want us to simply gaze at the holiness of old age, nor
does he want us searching for some magical Fountain of Youth that
doesn't exist now and won't exist in the foreseeable future. Nearly
every other book on the market takes these approaches, and the
messages are predictable, tiresome, and largely untrue. At the
Miami Jewish Health System (MJHS), Agronin sees both the sickest
and the healthiest of seniors, what works and what doesn't. Many
authors can talk about aging from their particular vantage points,
but Agronin is on the front lines as he counsels and treats elderly
individuals and their families and friends on a daily basis. All of
the latest scientific research combined with Agronin's first-hand
experience can be distilled into a simple and yet unheard of
formula: age is the solution and not the problem for many late-life
changes and challenges. This approach stops looking at aging as an
implacable enemy, as most other books on aging do, but casts it
instead as a potential developmental force for enhancing
well-being, meaning, and longevity. Agronin presents readers with a
model of aging that can help them understand all of these changes.
It is based on two novel concepts: age points, which describe the
key life transitions that come with age and teach us how to age
better; and age culture, the product of a rich and diversified
aging life. These concepts are sustained by the cognitive and
spiritual reserve we build up with age, the resilience that guides
us through stress and tragedy, and the ability to renew and
re-inventourselves in a changing world. At the same time, we cannot
forget the so-called "9th stage" of life as first defined by Erik
and Joan Erikson, encompassing those aged individuals beset by
severe physical and cognitive loss or disease who are typically
left out of most models of aging. Even in the throes of seemingly
overwhelming circumstances, it is possible to make life meaningful,
purposeful, and, if all else fails, comfortable. Many of the
strengths of aging come automatically, while the takeaways must be
actively pursued. Either way, a reckoning of these factors can
yield the end of old age as we typically conceive of it, where
aging trumps old and we experience genuine and enriched lives with
struggles and triumphs, losses and gifts, but with renewed
opportunities for us and our loved ones. The End of Old Age
provides an action plan for readers to begin recognizing and
harnessing the power of their own age points to create the most
meaningful and joyful age cultures possible.
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