Stanford Today
March/April 1998

Aging in the ’90s

In less than a century,
30 years have been added
to the life cycle.
With people living longer
than ever, it is time
to burst the myth that
old age is about
dementia, poverty
and loneliness.

Unwrapping the Humanities
	Artist Christo, authors Umberto Eco and Isabel Allende, critic Harold Bloom ­ they’re all coming to campus to discuss literature and the arts.  By Diane Manuel
Everything Old is New Again
	With people living longer than ever, it’s time to explode the myth that old age is about dementia, poverty and loneliness.  By Laura Carstensen
A Marriage Made in Medicine
	After a rocky courtship, Stanford and UCSF medical centers merge.  By Yvonne Daley

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