Living Longer & Livelier : Guidelines for Older Adults

Whatever is the world coming to? Eighty-year-olds are running the Marathon. Card shop are selling birthday greeting cards for 100-year-olds. A physician asks his octogenarian patient if his parents are still living. There is an increasing number of grandchildren who are upwards of 50 years of age. And on and on and on. These days when a statistic regarding life expectancy is announced it becomes obsolete almost immediately. The oldest of the old are not only here to stay, but in increasingly larger numbers. This book is concerned essentially with the behaviours, needs and interests and other important factors in the lives of those in the upper age ranges. It is hoped that the information will be useful In helping them to live a longer and livelier life. This does not mean that it is restricted reading only for older adults. Younger persons will also have an interest as it relates not only to older loved ones but to their own future as well.