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ELDERHOOD REBORN: ENVISIONING A LIFE BEYOND ADULTHOOD
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Aging Today
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September 1, 2007
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What Are Old People For? How Elders Will Save the World, the provocative meditation on the essence of elderhood by William H. Thomas, creator of the Eden Alternative and Green House program to change the culture of nursing home care, was recently published in a new paperback edition. A Harvard-trained physician, who was named one of America's Best Leaders by U.S. News and World Report, Thomas is also the author of In the Arms of Elders: A Parable of Wise Leadership and Community Building. Both books are published by VanderWyk and Burnham of Acton, Mass., which extended permission to Aging Today to print the following excerpt.
What are old people for? For millennia, the answer to that ...
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