The Cambridge Handbook Of The Ethics Of Ageing - 9781108817042

As one enters and progresses through old age, one experiences various unwelcome changes. One suffers declines in most physical abilities as well as in certain cognitive capacities; one becomes physically less attractive - or, perhaps, more unattractive; one's friends and loved ones succumb with increasing frequency to illness and death, leaving one submerged in grief and loneliness; and the familiar world one has known continues to recede into a past that few remember. Perhaps worst of all, the goods of life that remain in prospect are few, and rapidly become ever fewer--

• | Author: Christopher Wareham
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 04, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 314 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Philosophy
• | ISBN-10: 1108817041
• | ISBN-13: 9781108817042