1. Rethinking ageing: introduction.
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Blasimme, Alessandro, Boniolo, Giovanni, and Nathan, Marco J.
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AGING , *AGE groups , *SUCCESSFUL aging , *OLDER people , *ARTIFICIAL intelligence , *PHILOSOPHY of science , *SMART cities - Abstract
They conclude by highlighting that the reframing of ageing I qua i risk has social and ethical implications, as it is generative of normative notions of what constitutes successful ageing and good citizenship. While philosophical discussions about the nature of human ageing have never been settled, they acquire new significance in the contemporary I milieu i . This becomes especially evident in light of recent discoveries of various levels of senescence underlying the ageing of individual organisms - a phenomenon known as "age mosaicism." This has raised awareness of the dynamic nature of the ageing process, as well as the diverse ways in which ageing affects people differently, because of biological factors as well as cultural and social determinants. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2021
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