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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, Daniel: 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

population: rise in elderly, 1, 2, 3, 4

positive attitudes to ageing,

influence of, 1, 2

poverty, 1, 2

Pratchett, Terry, 1

pre-industrial societies, attitudes towards the elderly, 1, 2

premature ageing, see progeria

presbyopia, 1

Pritchett, V. S., 1

Prodi, Romani, 1

progeria, 1, 2

prostate, 1

proteins, 1

psychoanalysis, 1

psychiatry, 1

Quetelet, Adolphe, 1

rapamycin, 1

Reagan, Ronald, 1

Reardon, Ray, 1

religion, 1, 2, 3

Rembrandt, 1

reproduction, 1

resveratrol, 1

retirement, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

retirement age, 1, 2, 3, 4

Robinson, Anne, 1

Robinson, Gerry, 1

Rosenberg, Leo, 1

rural living, 1

St Augustine, 1, 2

Saint Germain, Comte de, 1

Scientific American , 1

self-image of the elderly, 1, 2, 3, 4

Seneca, 1

sex in old age, 1, 2, 3

Shakespeare, William, 1, 2, 3, 4

Shaw, George Bernard, 1

Sheldon, Joseph, 1

Shock, Nathan Wetherwell, 1

Simmons, Leo: Role of the Aged in Primitive Society , 1

Simpson, John, 1

sirtuin genes, 1, 2, 3

skin colouring and wrinkling, 1;

see also cosmetics

Skinner. B. F., and M. E. Vaughan: Enjoy Old Age , 1

sleep problems, 1

smoking, 1

snooker, 1

Sommers, Alice, 1

Sophocles, 1, 2, 3

Spark, Muriel: Memento Mori , 1

Spencer, June, 1

Sphinx, riddle of the, 1

sport, 1

stem cells, 1

stereotypes of the old, 1, 2, 3;

see also ageism

Stradivarius, 1

stress, 1

strokes, 1, 2

Suchet, John, 1

suicide, 1, 2, 3

Sunday Times , 1

supercentenarians, 1

Suzman, Richard, 1

Swift, Jonathan, 1, 2, 3;

Gulliver’s Travels , 1

Tandy, Jessica, 1

telomeres, 1

teeth problems, 1

The Oldie , 1

Thomas, Dylan, 1

Titian, 1

Tithonus (Greek myth), 1, 2, 3

tinnitus, 1

Tolstoy, Leo, 1

Trollope, Anthony: The Fixed Period , 1

Trotsky, Leon, 1, 2