- “My age is as a lusty winter”: The Age of Old Age Pat Thane
[rtoc]- Old Age: Facts and fiction
- How old is old?
- Life expectancy and the law of averages
- Old people in the family
- Myths of the Ages of Man
- Despised or admired?
- Rejuvenation: the Fountain of Youth
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- “Old age has always been revered”: The Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds Tim Parkin
[rtoc]- The testimony Plato and Aristotle
- Old age in Greek tragedy
- Roman old age
- The satirists’ view, and the philosophers’
- Regrets and compensations
- Honouring parents
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- “All want to reach old age but nobody wants to be old”: The Middle Ages and Renaissance Shulamith Shahar
[rtoc]- Retirement and exemption from service
- The body and the soul
- Age and authority
- Memory, wisdom and respect
- Spiritual comfort
- Charity to the old
- ‘Come closer to God’
- Elderly popes, youthful kings
- Work and old age
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- “An idle youth makes a needy old age”: The 17th century Lynn A. Botelho
[rtoc]- Humanist readings, Classical thought and modern reality
- Medicine, the prologation of life
- Old age in literature
- Comedy and the ageing lover
- Wealth and privilege
- Widows and widowers
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- “Long live the republic where old men preside”: The 18th century David G. Troyansky
[rtoc]- The voices of old age: biography and autobiography
- Healthy living
- Happiness and misery
- Old age in art and literature
- The experience of women
- The Revolution and ‘fêtes de vieillesse’
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- “Don’t complain about old age”: The 19th century Thomas R. Cole and Claudia Edwards
[rtoc]- The new Poor Law
- Social responsibility for the old
- Workhouses: benefits and drawbacks
- Influencing public opinion
- Documenting the aged and the poor
- The beginning of old age pensions
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- “I do not think of myself as old” Pat Thane
[rtoc]- Provisions for retirement
- The responsibility of the state
- Old people’s reactions
- The private sector
- Savings and mutual aid
- Medical advances
- Active old age
- Work and retirement
- An ageing population
- The future of old age
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