<r>Correction to my original post. "An Insider's Look at Old Age" (2011) under the title “I’m Old” is at <URL url="http://www.ahpcc.org.uk/pdf/old.pdf">http://www.ahpcc.org.uk/pdf/old.pdf</URL>. I have now written “I’m Frail” (2014). Online at <URL url="http://www.ahpcc.org.uk/imfrail.pdf">http://ww...

<r>Three years ago at age 87, I wrote a research/experience essay 'I'm Old' to help us, our progeny, and our caretakers understand what it is to be old. Read it online at <URL url="http://www.ahpcc.org.uk/pdf/old.pdf">http://www.ahpcc.org.uk/pdf/old.pdf</URL>. Now, having regressed from merely old t...

<t>I am 87 years old and I live in an old folks home. I have just written a paper about being old. A number of fellow-residents said the paper helped them understand themselves and that they are giving copies to their adult children both to help them understand how we have changed and to prepare the...