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What Are Old People For?
How Elders Will Save the World
by William H. Thomas, M.D.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

True Longevity
A New Wrinkle
The Doctrine of Youth’s Perfection
The Hidden Powers of Age
Myths and Other Theories

Becoming Human
A Matter of Life and Death
Necessity’s Virtue

The Rise of Elderhood
Old Age Long Ago
Industrial Strength Aging
Victory

Navigating Life
Living on the Edge of the World
Old Maps
The Way We Live Now
Five Ages

Tragedy
The Cult of Adulthood
The Assault on Childhood
Adult Forever
The Old-Age Archipelago
Private Grief, Public Tragedy

Distant Thunder
The Eden Alternative
Resistance
Place and No Place
Elderhood’s Sanctuary
The Green House

A Wink and a Smile
Midwife of Elderhood
The First Shahbaz
The Problem of Protection
Convivium
The Two-Fold Path

The Ripening
Elderhood Reborn
On Being an Elder
Eldertopia

Acknowledgments
Appendix—The First Green Houses
Notes
Bibliography
Index



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