The book of Рюди Вестендорпа, professor of gerontology of the Leyden university and director of the Leyden academy of vital activity and aging, analyses the process of aging and his reason in the wide aspect of modern scientific knowledge. What can we learn from people that remained healthy all exceptionally long innings? Will limitations in food or hormones, vitamins and mineral substances help us? How to save it life-breaths, in spite of privations and illnesses?An author systematizes factors influencing on constantly growing life-span of people of our time. In a book the social and political consequences of this vital explosion come into question in detail. With the special attention the ways of achievement of the most safe old age are examined: how to get older, not getting older. A book is written with an accessible language and undoubtedly will attract many readers.