Why Aging Matters: a Multidisciplinary Perspective
Words: 3930 Pages: 13 1791Introduction Despite the stigmatization of aging as a single, normative, and ubiquitous process that triggers incremental declines in somatic and mental health, aging is, in fact, deep, multidimensional, and highly individual. Moreover, aging has become an increasingly important, cutting-edge topic in the social sciences and humanities, as well as in the physical and life sciences. We are now encouraged to think of aging as a ""pleasure"" as well as a pain, a process that society will undoubtedly show as much […]