He underwent nine months of training at Star City in Russia to fly to the Mir space station, but those plans were canceled when Russia decided to bring down the aging, trouble-prone station, an action now planned for Friday.
This week's once-a-decade White House Conference on Aging troubled me for a number of reasons, prime among them was about how the conversation seemed to skirt the biggest issue facing us: how to change our culture so that "old age" is a time of productivity and activity instead of being presumed dead-while-still-breathing.
But, according to Jane Fonda, aging and troubles in the bedroom are "just around the corner" for him.
Sure, gray hair and crow's feet may not signify men's 'uh-oh' moments as they do for many contemporary women, but their aging appearance is troubling them more than they ever thought it would.
Transformation within the context of aging begins by troubling individual and societal attitudes toward aging that shape the language we use, our care relationships, government policy and regulation (Fagan, 2003; Holstein et al., 2011).
The idea that this might eventually cause trouble for an aging society was a problem for another day.
We talked about how ageism -- a word Dr. Butler coined in 1968 to describe discrimination against the elderly -- still plagues American society, and how the lack of primary care doctors spells trouble for aging baby boomers.
Not all the cities in trouble are aging industrial centers in Rust Belt states.
Is it their reliance on youth and beauty -- and measures to maintain them -- that run them into trouble, as aging brings losses too difficult to bear?
A person aging normally may have trouble with faces and names, but will not consistently forget.
Today, in part because of our aging society and our troubled pension system, the government simply doesn't have the money to make everything better.
