An Homage to Age Lift Gets Better: The Unexpected Pleasures of Growing Older

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An homage to age Lift Gets Better: The Unexpected Pleasures of Growing Older By Wendy Lustbader Tarcher/Penguin, $25.95, 256 pages, ISBN 9781585428922

In 1968, Dr. Robert Butler introduced the term "ageism," which referred to the negative and separatist attitudes and acts of discrimination or prejudice against older people. "Ageism," he said, "allows the younger generations to see older people as different than themselves; thus they subtly cease to identify with their elders as human beings."

The late Dr. Butler, who worked long and persistently to combat ageism, would surely give his hearty approval to a new book, Life Gets Better: The Unexpected Pleasures of Growing …