Lillian Rubin: 60 On Up

Recorded Live: Sunday, Dec. 16, 2007, 9:30 am PST

G U E S T :

• Dr. Lillian B. Rubin
  Author, The Man with the Beautiful Voice, Tangled Lives, Worlds of Pain, Intimate Strangers, and Just Friends

Moderated by : The Very Rev. Alan Jones,
Dean of Grace Cathedral

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About the Program:

The “golden years” can be anything but. With refreshing candor, best-selling author Dr. Lillian Rubin digs down under the statistics about our graying population in her new book 60 On Up: The Truth About Aging In America. The burning issues that mark aging in our times are all addressed here: What happens to sex and how has it changed in the post-Viagra world? What do retirees experience when they’ve lost their work identities and still have two, possibly three decades to live? What happens to family life when adult children have to care for their aged parents? What is a good death and how can we have one? And, more generally, the very important question: What happens to a society when people routinely live into their nineties, when they tout that “sixty is the new forty” and thirty is too young to settle down and start a family?

Dr. Lillian B. Rubin, a sociologist and psychotherapist, is the author of eleven other books, including The Man with the Beautiful Voice, Tangled Lives, Worlds of Pain, Intimate Strangers, and Just Friends. She lives in San Francisco, where she recently sold her first painting at the age of eighty-two.

 
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www.lillianrubin.com