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Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession - Global Perspectives (Paperback)
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Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession - Global Perspectives (Paperback)
Series: Global Perspectives on Aging
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In recent decades, the North American public has pursued an
inspirational vision of successful aging-striving through medical
technique and individual effort to eradicate the declines,
vulnerabilities, and dependencies previously commonly associated
with old age. On the face of it, this bold new vision of
successful, healthy, and active aging is highly appealing. But it
also rests on a deep cultural discomfort with aging and being old.
The contributors to Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession
explore how the successful aging movement is playing out across
five continents. Their chapters investigate a variety of people,
including Catholic nuns in the United States; Hindu ashram
dwellers; older American women seeking plastic surgery; aging
African-American lesbians and gay men in the District of Columbia;
Chicago home health care workers and their aging clients; Mexican
men foregoing Viagra; dementia and Alzheimer sufferers in the
United States and Brazil; and aging policies in Denmark, Poland,
India, China, Japan, and Uganda. This book offers a fresh look at a
major cultural and public health movement of our time, questioning
what has become for many a taken-for-granted goal-aging in a way
that almost denies aging itself.
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