Ageing, Thresholds And Vulnerability

Throughout the multitude of life experiences there exist moments of particular
vulnerability, or " thresholds ", where personal resources of the individual
are tested and give birth to vastly different trajectories of aging. In light
of the concepts of " thresholds " and " vulnerability ", the autors
demonstrate that one can begin to discriminate in such circumstances the
differences between normal and pathological compnents of aging.