Explores the practical and psychological aspects of caring for aging parents through lifestyle choices while creating a safe environment, bolstering mental activity, and promoting physical and spiritual well-being.

“A fascinating look at how scientists are working to help doctors treat the aging process itself, helping us all to lead longer, healthier lives.” —Sanjay Gupta, MD Aging—not cancer, not heart disease—is the underlying cause of most human death and suffering. The same cascade of biological changes that renders us wrinkled and gray also opens the door to dementia and disease. We work furiously to conquer each individual disease, but we never think to ask: Is aging itself necessary? Nature tells us it is not: there are tortoises and salamanders who are spry into old age and whose risk of dying is the same no matter how old they are, a phenomenon known as “biological immortality.” In Ageless, Andrew Steelecharts the astounding progress science has made in recent years to secure the same for humans: to help us become old without getting frail, to live longer without ill health or disease.

Does the age you feel match the age you are? Are you slowing down? Have you planned for your later-life needs? If you answer ‘yes’ to more than one of these questions, you are probably not amortal. But this book will tell you how amortals are reshaping your world. Amortality describes and analyses the revolution in the way we are ageing and how we think about age. Drawing together personal stories and the latest scientific research, this is the first-ever exploration of amortality: to the forces that created it and the unstoppable force it is becoming.

Unassisted Living documents the shift away from the senior housing that promoted disengagement toward architecture and design that promote active aging. The book is organized in six sections, corresponding to the concerns and special interests of Boomers—those who intend to remain in an urban setting, those concerned with sustainability, those with complex families and non-traditional households, and those who seek a community based on spirituality or shared interests. Boomers are perhaps the largest generational cohort the United States has ever seen. Numbering some 78 million people born between 1946 and 1964, Boomers are not accepting traditional retirement or “senior housing” and are instead determined to remain active and engaged professionally and socially.

Ageless Living, Freedom From the Culture of Death is a journey into physical immortality, living on light, and personal transformation.