Old Age

Abstract

“If a Renaissance or Georgian man could return, he would be as much astonished by the sight of two or three thousand septuagenarians and octogenarians lining a south coast resort on a summer’s day as he would by a television set. Astonished and maybe shocked. His was a world where it was the exception to go grey, to retire, to become senile and to acquire that subtle blend of voice, skin and behavioural changes which features so largely in our long-lived times.”