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The Longevity Revolution

The Benefits & Challenges of Living a Long Life

A pioneering, Pulitzer Prize-winning doctor reflects on the recent unprecedented leap in human life expectancy - and what we must do to take advantage of it.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Why Survive: Being Old in America and founder, president and CEO of the International Longevity Center-USA (ILC-USA), Dr. Robert Butler coined the term "ageism" and made "Alzheimer's" a familiar word. Now he brings his formidable knowledge and experience in aging issues to a recent and unprecedented achievement: the extension of human life expectancy by thirty years. As Butler shows, our society has not yet adapted to this change.

By: Robert N. Butler, M.D.
Publisher: Public Affairs
Pub. Date: March 03, 2008
ISBN-13: 9781586485535
 

The Longevity Revolution Reviewed in New England Journal of Medicine

Leonid Gavrilov, Ph.D. and Natalia Gavrilova, Ph.D., of the Center on Aging, NORC/University of Chicago have reviewed The Longevity Revolution for The New England Journal of Medicine's May 15, 2008 issue.

An excerpt from their review:

"This book has the potential to change the future of this country for the better if its ideas reach members of Congress and other representatives of the U.S. government. The general public and medical experts will also benefit from reading this book because it provides a broad overview of upcoming health care problems as well as possible solutions."

Access to the full article can be obtained with a free trial to NEJM Online.


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