By Ellen Gilbert

* “The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.” – Aldous Huxely

The very funny journalist Joyce Wadler defines “old age” as the time when the number of items in your medicine cabinet exceeds the number of hair-care products you use. Most people are familiar with the litany of ills that befall us as we age; if they don’t already, it is almost certain that, eventually, they will. more