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London : Imperial College Press ; Hackensack, NJ : Distributed by World Scientific Publishing Co., c2010

1 online resource (xii, 134 p.) : ill

ISBN 1848165072 (pbk.)

ISBN 9781848165076 (pbk.)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 128-130) and index

What’s the problem? -- Language as a barrier: "I can’t hear you" -- Dress and appearance: disguising the years; failure? -- Digging up the past; or, Where do we come from?: Were our ancestors healthier than we are? -- Ageing factors: More about appearance: tell-tale signs - sun, smiles and smoking -- Guessing by experts -- More about the skin, posture and bones -- Biomarkers; or, The countdown to the end - men and women, life-expectancy -- The eyes have it -- Thought for food -- Why do we age? Is it a matter of biological economics -- Elements -- Some age-related diseases: risk factors - Alzheimer’s disease, bones, cancers, heart, Parkinson’s, stroke -- The end of ageing -- What can we do about all this? -- Old age -- Biomarkers -- The menopause -- Age in the distant past -- How does human ageing fit into the animal scheme? -- From end to start.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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