title: The aging self in an 'ageist' culture: getting beyond denial.
abstract: What is certain is that we will age. Demonizing this inevitability hardly encourages people to get on with the distinctive work often possible for the first time only in life's later years. That work calls for the belated recognition and some integration of humanity's enduring ambivalences: we are both angels and animals, both natural creatures and societally nurtured.
authors.affiliation: Carleton College, Northfield, MN, USA.
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Maitland
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D003469:Culture; D003717:Denial, Psychological; D006801:Humans