Robert S Gable is emeritus professor of psychology at the Claremont Graduate University. He served as an aide in a mission hospital in South Africa and as a volunteer at a hospice organisation in Los Angeles.
Ageing
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Efforts to expand the lifespan ignore what it’s like to get old
As modern medicine extends the human lifespan, quality of life is not keeping up, raising thorny ethical dilemmas
by Robert S Gable