segunda-feira, março 07, 2011

Is Old Age Over?

By 2030, over 70 million Americans will be beyond traditional retirement age and facing the problems that come with growing old: weakened physical and mental capability, uncertain financial standing, personal loss and loneliness, and a sense of exclusion from America’s age-old affair with youth.
But even as the baby boomer generation moves inexorably toward the 65-year-old divide, scientists, health gurus, and businessmen promise that old age can be “cured”, or at least put on pause.
Is there hope for a new old age, or are we still chasing the fountain of youth?
Best-selling writer and social commentator Susan Jacoby, author of Never Say Die: The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age, visits Zócalo to ask what old age means, and whether living longer is possible — or even desirable — without living better.

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