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This article introudces Maria Vesperi, the guest editor for this issue, a distinguished anthropologist and journalist. The focus of this issue is the ways marketing and media reflect and influence images of older people, and how these stereotypes affect public policy, making it important to share information.
Publication Name: Generations (San Francisco, California)
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0738-7806
Year: 2001
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A model at 70: bring on the cameras
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This article provides an interview with fashion model Carmen Dell-Orefice on the occassion of her 70th birthday. Issues include her work, life concerns, caring for her 90-year-old mother, and the differences between real life and the marketing of the glamorous lifestyle of models.
Publication Name: Generations (San Francisco, California)
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0738-7806
Year: 2001
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Losing Jack: Mourning for a friend with Alzheimer's disease
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The writer narrates his lifetime experience with his friend Jack, who died having Alzheimer's disease and the manner in which he learnt the value of human resources, which can help to make something valuable of a passage no one would ever choose to experience.
Publication Name: Generations (San Francisco, California)
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0738-7806
Year: 2004
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