THE AGING SELF IN AN AGEIST CULTURE - GETTING BEYOND DENIAL

Authors
MAITLAND DJ
Citation
Dj. Maitland, THE AGING SELF IN AN AGEIST CULTURE - GETTING BEYOND DENIAL, Geriatrics, 53, 1998, pp. 74-76
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Geiatric & Gerontology
Journal title
Geriatrics → ACNP
ISSN journal
0016867X
Volume
53
Year of publication
1998
Supplement
1
Pages
74 - 76
Database
ISI
SICI code
0016-867X(1998)53:<74:TASIAA>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
What is certain is that rue will age. Demonizing this inevitability ha rdly encourages people to get on with the distinctive work often possi ble for the first time only in life's later years. That work calls for the belated recognition and some integration of humanity's enduring a mbivalences: we are both angels and animals, both natural creatures an d societally nurtured.