Adventures in Old Age

A candid look at aging, old age, and eldercare.

by Ira Rosofsky, Ph.D.

World's Oldest Condor Dies--In A Cage

By Ira Rosofsky, Ph.D. on January 30, 2010 in Adventures in Old Age

What's the point of living without consciousness?-we humans are likely to ask.

So would you settle, perhaps, for a level of consciousness without the human gift and curse of self-conscious, and be a 200 year old bowhead whale singing your love songs down the centuries?

Or would you rather be a Homo sapiens, one who dies at 20 or 10 fully aware of human joy and pain?

Slow & persistently declining limits

Submitted by Interested on January 31, 2010 - 10:50am.

This article captures dwindling life force very clearly and objectively.

Either sound mind OR sound body...I would choose neither if I couldn′t have BOTH!

Thaao, the condor, lived to be 80 in captivity, but was a shadow of the soaring, masterful, free bird he was born to be.

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Ira Rosofsky, Ph.D., is a psychologist in Connecticut who works in eldercare facilities and the author of Nasty, Brutish, and Long: Adventures in Old Age and the World of Eldercare.

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