Handbook Age and Aging

Age as a challenge. Ageing and ageing are playing an increasingly important role in public debates. Demographic change, the ageing of society and the problems and questions arising from it mean that almost all academic disciplines are concerned with this topic. Should we intervene in the ageing process? How is ageing to be understood? As a disease that can be "cured" or as a natural process that should not be influenced? The handbook looks at the life phase of old age as well as the biological and social phenomenon of ageing from a broad perspective. Proceeds of gerontology and biogerontology as well as geriatrics are bundled and extended by an anthropological, cultural-scientific and cultural-philosophical as well as a moral-philosophical and ethical perspective.