Průvodce stárnutím aneb jak ho oddálit - 2. vydání – Dienstbier Zdeněk (2012)

Aging has become a phenomenon that permeates almost all layers of our existence. Economists predict dire consequences of the fact that "the tree of life has stopped having the broadest branches in the lower tiers and stands on its tip." Sociologists and HR professionals struggle with the employment of people who, at fifty, represent a "problematic workforce." Psychologists diagnose fifty-somethings who feel a new zest for life, but no one wants them anymore. And a person who has reached this middle age often wants to accomplish many things, sometimes even against the will of those who have already "written them off," and despite the health problems that are beginning to emerge. How to cope with this and how to live life not only in middle age but also in later years in the best possible condition is a question that the author of the book, Prof. MUDr. Zdeněk Dienstbier, DrSc., chairman of the League Against Cancer Prague, seeks to answer. He personally has the best prerequisites for this - he has lived a life that could fill a novel, became a respected doctor who, even in his youth, began to fight against a treacherous disease like cancer. He has also reached an age that allows him to view life "with the precision of a scientist, but also with the understanding of a person who has not read it from...