With a baby boomer turning sixty every
ten seconds, we are rapidly becoming an aging society. But cutting edge
research on the connection between age and disease shows us that many
of the preconceptions we had about how to grow old need a second look.
This groundbreaking book is full of take-away prescriptive advice which
the nearly seventy-five million boomers in this nation will value. Top
gerontologist and Stanford medical school professor Dr. Walter Bortz
and co-author Randall Stickrod draw on new science and a thirty-year
longitudinal study of centenarians to show that:
• Senility, dementia, and other diseases of the elderly, are largely preventable and not an inevitable consequence of aging
• Engagement,
through sexual relationships, social interaction, and professional
activity, is a key factor in long, healthy lives
About the Author
Walter Bortz, M.D. is clinical associate professor of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine and author of Dare to Be 100.
He is past co-chairman of the American Medical Association’s Task Force
on Aging and former president of The American Geriatric Society. A firm
believer in practicing what you preach, Dr. Bortz has been a marathoner
for four decades, running his 40th marathon in April 2010 in Boston at
the age of 80. Bortz is a frequent face on the lecture circuit, sharing
his enthusiasm for healthy living and a robust life with hundreds of
audiences annually. Randall Stickrod is a long time science and
technology publisher and writer, and the founding editor of Wired.
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