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Realistic Expectations for Long Life.
There are any number of books around to tell us how we're all going to live to 150 years of age. This is not one of them. A more apt title might be Sobering Expectations for Long Life.
The contributors to this, the fifth volume of a series on aging, don't offer much hope that a dramatic breakthrough in life extension is just around the bend. Even the dazzling prospect of genetic manipulation is dismissed as 'improbable for the present."
Most of the book isn't about life extension at all. Its 19 chapters and two dozen contributors range all over the gerontological map. Almost inevitably, that presents the reader with the task of navigating some uneven terrain.
There are two chapters on longterm elderly care. Neither offers much that is new to anyone already working in the long-term-care field. One author, for example, laments the poor ratio of skilled nurses to residents in nursing homes, but suggests few concrete remedies.
Diligent rooting does uncover occasional juicy tidbits of information. Aortic cholesterol levels in rabbits can be ...
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