Includes bibliographical references and index.

Explores how the successful aging movement is playing out across five continents. Contributors investigate a variety of people, including Catholic nuns in the United States; Hindu ashram dwellers; older American women seeking plastic surgery; aging African-American lesbians and gay men in the District of Columbia; Chicago home health care workers and their aging clients; Mexican men foregoing Viagra; dementia and Alzheimer sufferers in the United States and Brazil; and aging policies in Denmark, Poland, India, China, Japan, and Uganda. They offer a fresh look at a major cultural and public health movement of our time, questioning what has become for many a taken-for-granted goal--aging in a way that almost denies aging itself. --From publisher description.

SACFinal081324