Toward Healthy Aging
Priscilla Ebersole, Patricia Hess
Seeks to provide nurses with the comprehensive knowledge of the processes and problems of aging and the needs and functions of the elderly.
Read Time: ~4.2 hr
Prolongevity
by Albert Rosenfeld (1976)
About this book
Descriptions of experiments, interviews with key researchers, and explanations of underlying theories comprise reportage on new discoveries and implications involving the probable slowing down and probable reversal of the aging process.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreProlongevity Lead Character
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