検索キーワード： 老年学

齢を取れば取るほど人は幸せになる「心筋梗塞も糖尿病も太っていたほうが長生きする」「糖尿病の治療がアルツハイマーを促進する」こんなことを言われたら、戸惑う人がほとんどだろう。

老いればさまざまな面で、肉体的および機能的な劣化が進みます。

伊藤忠商事会長、そして民間人初の中国大使を務めた名経営者が８５歳の老境に入ったからこそ感じる、日々の味わい方と愉しみ方とは

年齢による差別は許しません高齢者が幸せになれば、現役世代のくらしにも恩恵が!厚労省・製薬会社の壁をぶち破れ!

〈さびしい、苦しい〉老い方にさようなら!世界的な霊長類学者が教える、人生後半戦が「希望」となる考え方とは?・人間はなぜ“人生後半戦”が長いのか?・“老いるほど美しくなる”ゴリラに学ぶべきこと

■先行きに不安を感じている中高年サラリーマンのための「自分のキャリアをお金に変えて、定年後もバリバリ稼ぐ」技術、大公開！

老後の不安と欲望をエネルギーに、百花繚乱の「老い本」ワールド――そこに映し出される私たちの無意識とは？　名エッセイストが読み解く「老い」のニッポン精神史。

私もかつては死が恐ろしくて仕方なかった　小説家であり、また医師でもある著者は、これまでにも『日本人の死に時』『人間の死に方』『人はどう死ぬのか』など、死をテーマに著述を発表してきた。

定年後を不安に思う人は多い。「成果を上げたい」「他人に嫌われたくない・評価されたい」という現役時代の価値観に囚われると、自分で自分を不幸にしてしまう。

子どもがいなければ、いずれは“老後ひとり難民”に。入院できない!施設に入れない!死後は無縁仏に!?準備不足な“おひとりさま”の悲惨な末路。世はおひとりさまブームで、独身人口は増え続けるばかり。だが、そのまま老後を迎えて本当に大丈夫だろうか?

著者が〝師〟と仰ぎ、野球だけでなく、生き方の土台にもなったという、中村天風、藤平光一。二人の先生の教えを観念論や理想論ではなく、自らがどのように実践してきたか、具体的にまとめた人生の指南書。

人口減少が進む一方で、総人口に占める65歳以上の割合が過去最高を更新し続ける日本。世界断トツの「超高齢社会」には課題が山積している。

カネさえあれば幸せに死ねるのか――。入居金3億円超え。至れり尽くせりの生活を享受する超富裕層たち。彼らがたどり着いた「終の棲家」は桃源郷か、姥捨て山か。

From a leading expert on longevity, an urgent call for individuals, institutions, and society to adapt to the reality of living longer lives Thanks to increases in life expectancy, we can now expect to live for a long time. Most of us would welcome an extra day in the week, so why do so many of...

More than 1,000 extraordinary Americans share their stories and the wisdom they have gained on living, loving, and finding happiness. After a chance encounter with an extraordinary 90-year-old woman, renowned gerontologist Karl Pillemer began to wonder what older people know about life that the rest of us don't. His quest led him to interview more than one thousand Americans over the age of 65 to seek their counsel on all the big issues- children, marriage, money, career, aging.

What are we going to do with those 20 or 30 years we didn’t expect? Due to unfounded fears of unhappiness and regret, many intelligent, otherwise rational people, even into their 40s and 50s, are so convinced that old age is a time of misery that they simply deny any other outcome and refuse to plan their own destiny. This optimistic and highly informative guide to smart aging will detail for listeners the steps they need to take to ensure that long life becomes synonymous with good life.

We are in the midst of a healthspan revolution that will enable us to live vitally beyond 100 years old. Advanced diagnostics are now able to catch any disease at inception, while advanced therapies in clinical trials have the potential to reverse disease while also slowing, stopping, and potentially even reversing aging.

In the 1960s Ram Dass was a Harvard professor who turned to Eastern religion to answer the questions troubling his generation. He shared his story in the landmark classic, Be Here Now, which instantly captured the spiritual longings of his contemporaries. In Still Here, Ram Dass once again brings understanding, common sense, and reassurance for those of us facing the final season of life.

The immune system holds the key to human health. In The Beautiful Cure, leading immunologist Professor Daniel Davis describes the scientific quest to understand how it works - and how it is affected by stress, sleep, age and our state of mind - and explains how this knowledge is now unlocking a revolutionary new approach to medicine and well-being.

Since the birth of their nation, Americans have acted on the belief that theirs was a land of youth, a place destined to offer a fresh start to an aging world. No Country for Old Age tells this story from the founding period to our present moment, but not without exposing its darker side: rejuvenation has often bred grand expectations that end in division and despair.