About time
By: Irma Kurtz
Publisher: John Murray
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781848540231
Subjects: Older people; Social conditions; Life skills guides
Description: Something in our world is changing. In ten years time 60% of us will be over 55. The retirement age is likely to move up to 70; modern medicine ensures that most of us will live well in to our 80s and most of us will choose to do some work, paid or voluntary, while we are still physically able. Yet older people have, as yet, no role in modern society. Old age is regarded as an invonvenience, something to be shunned and set apart from our daily lives. In this frank, often funny and always compelling disquisition on ageing, Irma Kurtz sets out to chart the territory through her own and others' experiences.