Rodrigo Leandro is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering, University of New Brunswick (UNB), Canada, where he has been a student since 2004. Mr. Leandro is also a GNSS research and development engineer at Trimble Terrasat, Germany. He holds an M.Sc.Eng. in civil engineering from the University of São Paulo, in São Paulo, Brazil, and has been involved in resear...

If the old body is usually read as a synonym of fragility and upcoming illness, even though not the case for most elderly citizens, the reality is that the longer we live, the increased probability of being affected by different illnesses cannot be eluded or denied. In Doris Lessing’s The Diary of a Good Neighbour and Margaret Forster’s Have the Men Had Enough? the reader is invited to particip...