From the OUPBlog

Scene: A long-term care facility. A nurse is helping an older resident with dementia as she takes a shower.

Nurse: “There we go, sweetie, just lift your arm up a little bit for me. We’ll get you all cleaned up in no time, won’t we?”

Resident (swatting away the nurse’s hand):“Get outta here—I don’t want your help!”

At the start of every emerging technology, at the heart of every scientific breakthrough, is an original idea that ignites like a spark. And soon, if we’re lucky, the spark spreads into an all-encompassing flame of ingenuity. This innovation is the key to progress and GSA’s newest journal Innovation in Aging is devoted to fanning the flame of progress in gerontology.