Douglas Powell tears into received ideas about the deterioration of mental
and physical powers after we reach 60 years of age in The Nine Myths of Aging.
Slow descent into decrepitude is not inevitable. This is a brightly written
handbook, almost worth the title 鈥渞ead this and stay young鈥�, but it is soundly
based and backed up with interesting research and much anecdote. You, too, can
be an 鈥渙ptimal ager鈥�. Published by W. H. Freeman, 拢16.95,
ISBN 0716731045.