Finding happiness at 80+, from the perspective of an octogenarian.
Author Ralph Milton wants readers to know that old age is not a disease circling the world ready to pounce on anyone over eighty. Many, maybe even most, old people, say they are happier and more contented than they have ever been. And that's good news because Canadians are living much, much longer. In fact, octogenarians are the county's fastest growing demographic. To quote the author, "Society has never had to deal with such a huge bunch of old people."
To address this societal shift, Well Aged offers a candid, useful and entertaining insider's take on life among the old, old. Not the recently retired who are enjoying Arizona winters and unlimited golf, but those in their last years, usually in the eighty- to one- hundred-year-old bracket. While there is good material written by health-care professionals for other professionals, and popular non-fiction to inspire the recently...