Ageing, Healthy, and in Control: An Alternative Approach to Maintaining the Health of Older People |
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... normal cells cannot divide more than 50 times . Yet , whilst this would appear to rule out the idea of immortality , cells can live for much longer than the normal human lifespan . The cells of even the oldest surviving individuals can ...
... normal cells cannot divide more than 50 times . Yet , whilst this would appear to rule out the idea of immortality , cells can live for much longer than the normal human lifespan . The cells of even the oldest surviving individuals can ...
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... normal ' condition of older people . The image of old age as a time of pain , illness and disease is nurtured and encouraged by dominant medical opinion , which believes that illness is an unavoidable feature of normal ageing . The ...
... normal ' condition of older people . The image of old age as a time of pain , illness and disease is nurtured and encouraged by dominant medical opinion , which believes that illness is an unavoidable feature of normal ageing . The ...
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... normal ' , and women ' abnormal ' in that : the intellectual , emotional and physical potential of women is measured against the male standard and women are found to be essentially defective . Second , the abnormality is seen to arise ...
... normal ' , and women ' abnormal ' in that : the intellectual , emotional and physical potential of women is measured against the male standard and women are found to be essentially defective . Second , the abnormality is seen to arise ...
Contents
reasserting personal control | 64 |
combating loneliness | 82 |
Diet and nutrition | 98 |
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