Youth prolonged
Subtitle: old age postponed
By: Robert Weale
Contributors: ebrary, Inc
Publisher: Imperial College Press; Distributed by World Scientific Publishing Co.; World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; Hackensack, NJ
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
ISBN-13: 9781848165076
Subjects: Longevity; Aging; Health; Prevention
Other titles: Old age postponed
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 128-130) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2010. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Table of contents: title: What's the problem?; title: Language as a barrier: "I can't hear you"; title: Dress and appearance: disguising the years; failure?; title: Digging up the past; or, Where do we come from?: Were our ancestors healthier than we are?; title: Ageing factors: More about appearance: tell-tale signs - sun, smiles and smoking; title: Guessing by experts; title: More about the skin, posture and bones; title: Biomarkers; or, The countdown to the end - men and women, life-expectancy; title: The eyes have it; title: Thought for food; title: Why do we age? Is it a matter of biological economics; title: Elements; title: Some age-related diseases: risk factors - Alzheimer's disease, bones, cancers, heart, Parkinson's, stroke; title: The end of ageing; title: What can we do about all this?; title: Old age; title: Biomarkers; title: The menopause; title: Age in the distant past; title: How does human ageing fit into the animal scheme?; title: From end to start.