aging

A description of the aging process, physically and mentally.

Defines the process of aging and discusses society's changing attitudes toward the aged.

Young Winnie Foster, stifled by the formality of her proper life and her domineering mother, escapes into the woods only to get lost. Her magical summer begins when she meets Jesse Tuck. Jesse is full of life and adventure and Winnie falls in love. The Tuck family has a powerful secret, a spring that holds the magic of everlasting life. Now Winnie must choose whether she wants to live life as she knows it or drink from the spring.

A concise compilation of information and statistics on older Americans.

The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older.

While researching aging for a class project, Jenna becomes obsessed with staying young and, after reading part of an Aldous Huxley book about a man on a similar quest, tries an experiment on her parents without knowing the possible side effects.

Benjamin Button is born an old man in 1860, much to the consternation of his father, and proceeds to age backwards, finally ending up an infant.

In a future England where young people, or "Surpluses," are heavily regulated and everyone takes a drug called Longevity, a member of the Underground infiltrates the Pincent Pharma manufacturing plant, and uncovers horrific acts being committed in an attempt to create eternal youth.

When a Pincent Pharma truck is ambushed by the Underground, revealing not the expected supply of drugs but corpses, it becomes clear that the Longevity prescription for eternal youth is failing to live up to its promises, and when the Underground is blamed for releasing a deadly virus, the truth finally comes out.