Editorial: the "greening" of the Canadian Journal on Aging.

Editorial: Older Driver Research. Evidence to Guide Change.

Editorial: Families and Aging: From Private Troubles to a Global Agenda.

Editorial: Northern Lights: Reflections on Canadian Gerontological Research

The occasion of the first meeting in Canada of the International Association of Gerontology (LAG) provides the Canadian Journal on Aging with a unique opportunity to review the state of the fields of gerontology and geriatrics in our country and to place that review in an international context. In this introduction to this special supplement of the Canadian Journal on Aging, we briefly overview...

Editorial: of zombies, endings and beginnings...

In the Globe and Mail, 6 September 2008, Doug Saunders’s column was entitled, ‘‘Europe Comes Home to the Shock of a Demographic Bombshell.’’ He opines on the latest Eurostat report, Population and Social Conditions, which predicts that by 2015 the European population will begin to shrink as deaths outnumber births, even taking into account immigration and in the absence of any other changes. Ne...

Editorial: neglecting elders in the workplace: civil society organizations, ageism, and mandatory retirement.

Introduction In Lucino Visconti’s 1971 film, Death in Venice, a middle-aged composer falls for a beautiful adolescent boy. The movie’s opening scene limns a powerful contrast between the ill-fated impresario and a muscular longshoreman in his seventies, who loads the agonized tourist’s massive luggage and advises him about a deceptive gondolier. Visconti’s magical sequence captures the proudly ...