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How to Age

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Embrace Ageing as a Time of Immense Growth, Not Inevitable Decline
Society has a deep fear of ageing, and showing your age is increasingly one of our most pervasive taboos. Old age in modern life is widely viewed as either a time of inevitable decline or something to be resisted, denied or overcome. In How to Age, sociologist and award-winning journalist Anne Karpf urges us to radically change our narrative.
Exploring how our outlook on ageing is historically determined and culturally defined, Karpf draws upon revealing case studies to suggest how ageing can be an actively enriching time of immense growth. She argues that if we can recognize growing older as an inevitable part of the human condition, then the great challenge of ageing turns out to be none other than the challenge of living. In How to Age, learn how ageing isn't about your wardrobe or physical fitness, but a determination to live fully at every age and stage of life. This insightful book offers a philosophical and reflective look at why we fear aging, how to enjoy growing older, and the wisdom that comes with embracing your age.

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      December 1, 2014
      Part of the School of Life series (How to Stay Sane, 2012; How to Think More about Sex, 2012), Karpf's pithy and cogent treatise calls for us to embrace aging as a lifelong process. Not that Karpf dismisses the difficulties of advanced age, but she believes that our fear of getting old is debilitating. Age would be a much healthier aspect of life if we didn't dread and disparage it. Karpf critiques our extreme obsession with looking young and how it fuels a gargantuan anti-aging industry based mostly on fantasy, and she protests age-apartheid. Reminding us of neurological studies that reveal the lasting elasticity of our brains, Karpf cites fascinating and diverse examples that confirm the fact that age helps us discover enduring sources of meaning. Wittily philosophical, Karpf declares that ageism is prejudice against one's future self. We should live time to the hilt since we can't stop it, cultivating passion, vitality, humor, and creativity, which are possible at every age. One more observation to help us shake off apprehension: There's never been a better time to age. (Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2014, American Library Association.)

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