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The longevity revolution : the benefits and challenges of living a long life / Robert N. Butler. |
| Authors: | Butler, Robert N., 1927- |
| Call number: | 612.68 BUT |
| Publisher: | New York : PublicAffairs, c2008. |
| Publication date: | c2008. |
| Subject: |
Longevity.
Longevity -- Social aspects -- United States. Geriatrics -- United States. Medical policy -- United States. |
| Title: | The longevity revolution : the benefits and challenges of living a long life / Robert N. Butler. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Physical description: | xv, 553 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents note: | What is the longevity revolution? -- The new longevity is the biggest challenge -- "The greedy geezer": the manufactured clash of the generations -- Ageism: another form of bigotry -- The changing family and longevity -- The disorders of longevity -- Human interest in longevity: the power of research -- Alzheimer's: the epidemic of the twenty-first century -- The "biology of extended time": evolution and longevity -- Cycles, clocks, and power plants: longevity science and aging research -- Toward a prescription for longevity and quality of life: health promotion and disease prevention -- Redesigning health care for an older America -- Live longer, work longer: productive engagement -- Social Security: self-responsibility, and the state -- The private sector: providence and risk--the role of the marketplace -- The politics of aging and longevity -- Population solutions to longevity: transition to stable populations -- Worldwide democratization of longevity: overcoming famine, war, and pestilence -- Threats to longevity: could we lose the longevity revolution? -- The good life: quality of life in the era of longevity -- Imagining longevity: challenges of the future. |
| Biography note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [493]-530) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781586485535 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1586485539 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| LCCN: | 2007048204 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1142716 |
| Bib No.: | 1142716 |
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