Robert N. Butler, MD: Visionary of Healthy Aging

by W. Andrew Achenbaum

Robert Neil Butler (1927-2010) was a scholar, psychiatrist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who revolutionized the way the world thinks about aging and the elderly. One of the first psychiatrists to engage with older men and women outside of institutional settings, Butler coined the term "ageism" to draw attention to discrimination against older adults and spent a lifetime working to improve their status, medical treatment, and care.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231164424
• ISBN13: 9780231164429
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher