With a baby boomer turning sixty every ten seconds, we are rapidly becoming an aging society. But cutting edge research on the connection between age and disease shows us that many of the preconceptions we had about how to grow old need a second look. This groundbreaking book is full of take-away prescriptive advice which the nearly seventy-five million boomers in this nation will value. Top gerontologist and Stanford medical school professor Dr. Walter Bortz and co-author Randall Stickrod draw on new science and a thirty-year longitudinal study of centenarians to show that:Genetics plays a smaller role in aging than previously thoughtSenility, dementia, and other diseases of the elderly, are largely preventable and not an inevitable consequence of agingEngagement, through sexual relationships, social interaction, and professional activity, is a key factor in long, healthy...