care for the elderly, 1, 2;
history, 1;
care homes, 1, 2;
home-based care, 1, 2, 3;
costs, 1, 2, 3
Carlucci, Antonio, 1
cataracts, 1
cellular damage, 1
Charcot, Jena-Martin, 1
Chateaubriand, François-René, 1
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 1
chess, 1
Cheyne, George, 1
China, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Chinen, Kama, 1
Christie, Agatha, 1, 2
Churchhill, Winston, 1, 2, 3
Cicero, 1, 2
Cleopatra, 1, 2
cold-related illnesses, 1
Comfort, Alex, 1
computers, and the elderly, 1
Confucius, 1
Contributary Pensions Act (1925), 1
Cornaro, Alvise, 1, 2
coronary heart disease, 1, 2
cosmetic surgery, 1, 2
cosmetics, 1, 2, 3
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, 1
crime, and the elderly, 1
Cryer, Barry, 1
da Vinci, Leonardo, 1
Darwin, Charles, 1, 2
Davis, Geena, 1
Day, George Edward, 1
de Beauvoir, Simone, 1
de Grey, Aubrey, 1
de Maupassant, Guy, 1
deafness, see hearing problems death, 1, 2;
leading causes, 1, 2;
preparing for, 1
Defoe, Danieclass="underline" Moll Flanders, 1
dementia, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;
see also Alzheimer’s disease
Democritus, 1
Dench, Judi, 1, 2
depression, 1, 2, 3
diabetes, 1, 2, 3, 4
Dickens, Charles: The Old Curiosity Shop, 1
diet, 1, 2
Dignitas, 1
disposable soma, 1
DNA, 1, 2, 3, 4
Driver, Betty, 1
Drysdale, Patsy, 1
Ebers papyrus (Egypt), 1
economic consequences of ageing societies, 1, 2, 3, 4
Economist, 1, 2
Eliot, T. S.: Little Gidding, 1
ELSA (English Longitudinal Study of Ageing), 1, 2, 3
Employment Equality (Age) Regulations (2006), 1, 2
erectile dysfunction, 1
Esquirol, Dominique, 1
Euripides, 1, 2
euthanaisa, 1
Evening Standard, 1, 2
evolution, 1, 2
exercise, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
eye diseases, 1
falls, 1, 2, 3, 4
Fiennes, Ranulph, 1
films, 1
Financial Times, 1
Fischer, David Hackett, 1
Fonda, Henry, 1
forgetting, see memory loss
‘fourth age’, 1
frailty, 1, 2
Freud, Clement, 1
Freud, Sigmund, 1
Frith, Ruth, 1
fruit-fly (D. melanogaster), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Fukuyama, Francis, 1
further education, 1
Galbraith, J. K., 1
Galen, 1
Galileo Galilei, 1
Galton, Francis, 1
Gambia, 1
genes, influence on ageing, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
geriatric medicine, 1, 2;
history, 1
germ cells, 1
geronticide, 1
gerontocracy, 1
Gide, André, 1
Gilgamesh, 1
Gill, A. A., 1
Gilleas, Andrea: Keepers, 1
glaucoma, 1
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1
golf, 1
Gompertz, Benjamin, 1
gout, 1
Goya, 1
grandparents, 1, 2
Greenberg, Brooke, 1
Grey, Edward, 1
Grimms’ fairy tales, 1
growth hormones, 1
Guardian, 1
Guinness Book of World Records, 1, 2
hair loss, 1, 2
Hall, G. Stanley, 1
Hall, Peter, 1
Hancock, Sheila, 1
happiness, 1, 2
Harman, Harriet, 1, 2
Harvey, William, 1
Hayflick, Leonard, 1, 2
Haywood, Margaret, 1
hearing problems, 1
Help the Aged, 1, 2
Helvin, Marie, 1
Hepburn, Katherine, 1
Herodotus, 1
Heseltine, Michael, 1
Hilton, James: Lost Horizon, 1
Hippocrates, 1
Hokusai, 1
Holocaust survivors, 1
hormesis, 1
hospices, 1
Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm, 1
Hugo, Victor, 1
Humphrys, John, 1;
and Sarah Jarvis, The Welcome Visitor, 1
Hunza Valley, Pakistan, 1, 2
Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome, 1
immune sysem, 1
Independent, 1
India, 1, 2, 3
Ingrams, Richard, 1
insulin, 1, 2
IQ, 1
Ironside, Virginia, 1, 2
Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1
James, P. D., 1
James, William, 1
Japan, 1, 2
Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 1
Jung, Carl, 1
Kass, Leon, 1, 2
Kirkwood, Thomas, 1, 2, 3, 4
Knightley, Keira, 1
Koran, 1
Kraepelin, Emil, 1
Kurtz, Irma, 1
La Fontaine, 1
Lasker, Emanuel, 1
Lawrence, Jeremy, 1
Lerner, Max, 1
Lessing, Doris, 1, 2
Levin, Bernard, 1
Levin, Christine, 1
Levy, Becca, 1, 2
Lewy bodies, 1
life expectancy, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
loneliness and social exclusion, 1, 2, 3
Lott, Tim, 1
Lucretius, 1
Lumley, Joanna, 1
McCain, John, 1
McNab, Francis, Don’t Call Me Grumpy, 1
marathon, 1
Markson, Elizabeth, and Carol Taylor: Ageing and Society, 1
Marley, Bob, 1
Marx, Groucho, 1
Maugham, W. Somerset, 1
Medawar, Peter, 1, 2, 3
memory loss, 1, 2, 3
Mencken, H. L., 1
menopause, 1
Metchnikoff, Elie, 1
Methuselah, 1, 2
Michelangelo, 1, 2
Midgley, Mary, 1
Milla, Roger, 1
Mir, Gisele, 1
Mitchell, Michelle, 1
Mitchison, Dennis, 1
‘monkey-gland’ transpalants, 1
Mortensen, Christian, 1
Mubarak, Hosni, 1
Murdoch, Iris, 1, 2
muscle, 1
mutations, 1
Napolitano, Giorgio, 1
Nascher, Ignatz Leo, 1
National Institute of Aging, 1
National Insurance Act (1946), 1
nematode worm (C. elegans), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
NHS, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Neuberger, Julia, 1, 2
Nuland, Sherwin: How We Die, 1
obesity, 1, 2
Oglesby, Tamsin: Really Old, Like Forty Five, 1
Okinawa, Japan, 1, 2
Old Age Pensions Act (1909), 1
oldest recorded men and women, 1, 2
Osler, William, 1
osteoarthritis, 1
osteoporosis, 1, 2
Ovid, 1, 2
Paige, Leroy, 1
Pankhurst, Emmeline, 1
Panorama, 1
Paoli, Enrico, 1
Park, Alison, 1
Parkinson, Michael, 1
Parkinson’s disease, 1, 2, 3
Parr, Thomas, 1
Partridge, Linda, 1
Pension Commission (2004), 1
pensions, 1, 2, 3
Pepper, Claude, 1
Peter Pan gene, 1, 2
pets, 1
Phillips, Arlene, 1
Phillips, Sian, 1
physical effects of ageing, 1, 2
Pinel, Philippe, 1
Planck, Max, 1
Plato, 1, 2
Plautus, 1
Plutarch, 1, 2
political engagement, 1
politics, elderly leaders in, 1
Ponce de Leon, Juan, 1