Douglas Powell tears into received ideas about the deterioration of mental
and physical powers after we reach 60 years of age in The Nine Myths of Aging.
Slow descent into decrepitude is not inevitable. This is a brightly written
handbook, almost worth the title “read this and stay young”, but it is soundly
based and backed up with interesting research and much anecdote. You, too, can
be an “optimal ager”. Published by W. H. Freeman, £16.95,
ISBN 0716731045.
