Category: Health

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Gerovital

The “Youth” Doctors

Bucharest, Romania Clarena/Montreux, Switzerland September, 1971 If you can promise man youth, fortune and glory are yours. The world’s rich and famous will flock to you and pay you homage (and many dollars). And the sensation-hungry international press will help you advertise. Preferable prerequisites are

Photo by H. Christian Adam, Foto Galerie die Brücke, Vienna

The Aged in Vienna: A Gerontocracy

Vienna is one of the few natural retirement paradises left on earth. Here the aged have both numerical and social dominance in a unique 19th century operetta setting. Call it “Leisure World East” – a “retirement village” spread over an entire city, a fascinating onetime

Photo courtesy of Svenskt Pressfoto

The Aged in Sweden: Rich in Goods, Poor in Love

The telephone jangles in the study of the bishop of Stockholm. He answers it with a business-like, “Hello, Bishop Ström here.” “Oh, I’m sorry,” says the caller, in an elderly, disappointed voice, “I have the wrong number.” A second’s hesitation, then the words tumble out

Stryn, Nordfjord, Norway

The Aged in Norway Where They Live “Forever”

Stryn, Nordfjord, Norway June, 1971 The two-seater seaplane sways gently over the majestic fjord country of Western Norway. Doughnut-shaped islands of gray granite, with frozen-lake centers contrast with others porcupine-thick with snow-dusted pine trees. Here and there, amidst flat squares of green, thin curls of