Most studies of ageing have been done by the non-aged. To correct this imbalance, Hazan enlisted the resources of an unusual and innovative group of elderly persons in Cambridge, England. Gathering together in a structured curriculum of seminars and discussion groups and calling themselves the University of the Third Age, the elders intellectually reexamine the spectrum of sociocultural and epistemological principles starting with basics. Hazan's careful observation, description and transcription of the words of the Third Agers demonstrates that cognition and discourse go through transformations and permutations as individuals attain the so-called wisdom years. Alone in the literature on ageing, Hazan's contribution lights the way for much new thinking and research on and among our older population.

Preface
Discourse: Assumptions of Ageing
Substance: A Question of Learning
Analytic Considerations: A Question of Anthropology
Audibility: A Question of Language
Text: Soundings of the Code of Ageing
Terms of Reference: "Taking it from First Principles"
Time: "We all were grandchildren"
Space: "We are all white middle class--what the hell have we done about it?"
Reason: "It is the annihilation of the world as we know it"
Context: Testing Out for Ageing
Time Recaptured: The Hidden Agenda of Death
Space Regained: The Control of Images
Reason Applied: The Void of Autonomy
Discussion: An Experiment in Ageing