Aging with Agility
how elite athletes and ordinary folks embrace exercise with age
$40.56
- Paperback
248 pages
- Release Date
14 October 2025
Summary
Aging with Agility: Stories of Vitality and Purpose
Today, global life expectancy is well over seventy years—a dramatic increase from historical norms. Living longer means we need to think about how to keep aging bodies healthy. Evidence suggests that regular exercise is the most important modifiable factor that can increase the chances of aging with agility. But what motivates some of us to engage in exercise enthusiastically and others to avoid it?
Through storytelling and…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780231219747 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0231219741 |
| Author: | Michelle Pannor Silver |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press |
| Imprint: | Columbia University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Release Date: | 14 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm |
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Critics Review
An expert on the relationship between aging and health, Michelle Silver uses compelling and thoroughly researched longitudinal cases to offer valuable insight into the habits and routines that everyone can adopt to improve their well-being as they age, no matter their life circumstances. – Roger G. Baldwin, editor of Reinventing Academic RetirementMichelle Silver’s engaging profiles of elders and their exercise careers prompted me to rethink my own efforts to maintain the body that I will depend on over the days and years ahead. As one ex-athlete advised: “Take care of your body like you’re gonna need it for a long time.” – David Ekerdt, author of Downsizing: Confronting Our Possessions in Later Life
About The Author
Michelle Pannor Silver
Michelle Pannor Silver is professor and chair of the Department of Health and Society at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Retirement and Its Discontents: Why We Won’t Stop Working, Even If We Can (Columbia, 2018).
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