Successful aging as a contemporary obsession : global perspectives
(Book)

pt. 1. Gender, sexuality, and the allure of anti-aging. Successful aging, ageism, and the maintenance of age and gender relations / Toni Calasanti and Neal King ; Opting in or opting out? North American women share strategies for aging successfully with (and without) cosmetic intervention / Abigail T. Brooks ; Aging out: ageism, heterosexism, and racism among aging African American lesbians and gay men / Imani Woody ; Erectile dysfunction as successful aging in Mexico / Emily Wentzell

pt. 2. Ideals of independence, interdependence, and intimate sociality in later life ; Beyond independence: older Chicagoans living valued lives / Elana D. Buch ; Growing old with God: an alternative vision of successful aging among Catholic nuns / Anna I. Corwin ; Aspiring to activity: universities of the third age, gardening, and other forms of living in postsocialist Poland / Jessica Robbins-Ruszkowski ; Should old acquaintance be forgot? Friendship in the face of dementia / Janelle S. Taylor

pt. 3. National policies and everyday practices: individual and collective projects of aging well. Getting old and keeping going: the motivation technologies of active aging in Denmark / Aske Juul Lassen and Astrid Pernille Jespersen ; Foolish vitality: humor, risk, and success in Japan / Jason Danely ; Nurturing life in contemporary Beijing / Judith Farquhar and Qicheng Zhang ; Depreciating age, disintegrating ties: on being old in a century of declining elderhood in Kenya / Janet McIntosh

pt. 4. Medicine, morality, and self: lessons from life's ends. Successful selves? Heroic tales of Alzheimer's disease and personhood in Brazil / Annette Leibing ; Comfortable aging: lessons for living from eighty-five and beyond / Meika Loe ; Ageless aging or meaningful decline? Aspirations of aging and dying in the United States and India / Sarah Lamb

Epilogue: Successful aging and desired interdependence / Susan Reynolds Whyte.