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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Soin, Kanwaljit, author.
Title: Silver shades of grey : memos for successful ageing in the 21st century / Kanwaljit Soin.
Description: New Jersey : World Scientific, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017039476| ISBN 9789813231337 (hardcover) |
ISBN 9789813233737 (softcover)
Subjects: LCSH: Aging--Physiological aspects.
Classification: LCC QP86 .S57 2017 | DDC 612.6--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017039476
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To my husband and our grandchildrenKhalista, Maia, Armahn, Tasa, Lucas, Nova, Cecily, and Raphael.
Dr. Kanwaljit Soin has produced a highly engaging, readable, and informative book on the subject of ageing. It is written for all genders to help the reader understand and embrace the inevitable ageing process. With her medical background, she explains simply and clearly, sometimes with a touch of wit, issues of ageing that have troubled us and have no one to ask. The book is also for researchers in universities and research centres who work on the subject because it is rich in medical information, social analyses and public policy discussion.
Professor Chan Heng Chee, Chairman,
Lee Kuan Yew Center for Innovative Cities,
Singapore University of Technology and Design
Dr. Soin has given so many golden nuggets of her experiences on healthy living and ageing well. I am sure many will find much truth and emulate and gain confidence in themselves to be able to function well as senior members of society and be a joy to their families and friends.
Mrs. Dorothy Chan, Executive Director,
Far East Organization
How do we prepare for a life we havent lived? If indeed forewarned is forearmed, this book is a must-read. Its informative, holistic and enlightening. A positive endorsement that ageing can be enjoyable.
Ms. Patricia Chan, Swimmings Pioneer Golden Girl and
Womens Hall of Fame & Sports Hall of Fame
A timely guide to ageing in this age of the baby boomers, grounded in a broad research on gerontological aspects from the physical to the mental, spiritual, sociological and economical, with nuggets of information all found in a neat and handy package.
Choo Wai Hong, author of
The Kingdom of Women: Life, Love and Death
in China's Hidden Mountains
Dr. Kanwaljit Soin is a Woman for All Ages. She is compassionate, inclusive and clear-eyed about problems that face us; a doer, not an arm-chair theorist; a tireless champion of the underdog. Above all, she celebrates life in all its complexity. Any book by her will be engaging, exhilarating and, above all, life-enhancing.
Dr. Geh Min, environmentalist and former
Nominated Member of Parliament ( Jan 2005Apr 2006)
This book is literally everything you ever wanted to know about growing old. But Dr. Soin does not bore you to old age. Her message is optimistic and hopeful: Dont be afraid of growing old, and dont be afraid of other people growing old. But, first, you need to read this book.
Mr. Han Fook Kwang, Editor-At-Large,
The Straits Times and Senior Fellow, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
This is a highly educational, fun and easy-to-read book on a subject that affects us allgetting older and ageing. Dr. Soin brilliantly reveals the difference between our chronological, biological and psychological age, and how we can modify the ageing process to live in greater fitness and well-being. A must-read for all ages and stages of life.
Dr. Noeleen Heyzer, member of the United Nations
Secretary-Generals High-Level Advisory Board on
Mediation
Here is prose chiming with vitality and possibilities, clarity, wit and wisdom; its subject, the very thing that informs its brilliance. Dr. Soin, the medical specialist AND activist are both true to form here. Her objective is clear. What is the use of knowledge if not to facilitate new ways of being?
Ms. Dana Lam, author of Days of Being Wild:
Walking the Line with the Opposition
With characteristic flair, Dr. Kanwaljit Soin looks at a traditionally sensitive topic, ageing, from the widest possible range of perspectives, including the biological, psychological and sociocultural. To this vastness of scope, she brings an assured tone, moving easily from unflinching admonition to friendly advice, from earnest instruction to warm understanding and humour.
Dr. Catherine Lim, writer
This brilliant, reassuring, simply-written book summarizes, all you need to know about ageing from various perspectivesbiological, psychological, medical, financial, individual, societaldrawing from the latest scientific and social-scientific research to suggest practicable actions that individuals, families and governments can take to realize the full potential of ageing populations.
Professor Linda Lim, Professor Emerita of Corporate
Strategy and International Business,
Stephen M. Ross School of Business,
University of Michigan
In her inimitable style of providing thoughtful, humorous insights backed by credible research, Kanwaljit's collection of bite-sized chapters are endearing yet serious. She makes a convincing case that while one must understand the realities of ageing, the potential of the older mind as a force for creative change and genius is historically proven. If ever there was a primer on ageing and its trials and triumphs, this is it!
Sylvia Lim,
Member of Parliament, Aljunied GRC
(2011-) and Chair of Workers Party
(Singapore)
Dr. Soin is not only an expert on medical aspects of ageing, but she is a brilliant writer, whose stories and facts offer inspiration for the critical global issue of growing old. A must-read for old and young alike, since we are all heading in the same direction toward seniority.
Professor Meg Lowman,
Director of Global Initiatives,
