AgeWork Your doorway to jobs in aging Careers in Aging GSA Student Organization Advice Search Journals FAQs Association for Gerontology in Higher Education National Academy on an Aging Society **Hot Topic** Review the scientific research into caloric restriction through Caloric Restriction's Effects on Aging: Opportunities for Research on Human Implications Journals of Gerontology Series A, ...

SOCIAL GERONTOLOGY & THE AGING REVOLUTION It is the meaning that men attribute to their life, it is their entire system of values that define the meaning and value of old age. The reverse applies: by the way in which a society behaves toward its old people it uncovers the naked, and often carefully hidden, truth about its real principles and aims. --Simone de Beauvoir, The Coming of Age If we ...

The Valencia Forum An International Scientific Congress 1 to 4 April, 2002 Following the Valencia Forum this website has been redesigned to provide information on the outcomes of the Forum and to provide a platform for continuing dialogue. Auspiced by the International Association of Gerontology Co-sponsered by The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Hosted by the Government of the Autonomous ...

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THE MEDICALIZATION OF OLD AGE Like religion and law, medicine is a moral enterprise as it defines and manages individuals deemed undesirable by the broader culture (Eliot Freidson, The Profession of Medicine). Over the course of the twentieth century, deviance has increasingly been medicalized, as is evident in our public discourse: one is no longer a drunkard but rather suffers from ...