On Being Very, Very Old: An Insider's Perspective
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On being very, very old: an insider's perspective.
When I began to think about my perspective as a very very old person, I found that I was writing both from my perspective as a gerontologist and from my perspective as an individual grown old. The reason for my dual perspective is that I was born in 1922, at a time when the aging population was growing rapidly, and I lived through several ensuing macroprocesses that would have major effects on ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Gerontologist
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0016-9013,1758-5341
DOI: 10.1093/geront/gnp143