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40plus Integrative Health
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Robin Saltonstall, PhD
Integrative Health Specialist
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RESEARCH
I am currently researching and writing on the lived experience of being in the decades of life after 50. I call this "Oldering." Unlike the term "aging" which refers to physical phenomena such as the decline in cell rate division and bone growth , oldering includes all of the experiences of becoming and being older. Oldering includes the physical and the metaphysical lived experience of being human and older; it is grounded in the concept that as human mammals we are intimately engaged iwth and embedded in Earth's rhythms and cycles. Building upon the biological truth that all decomposition is simultaneously recomposition, oldering asks us to consider how our insight is growing as our eyesight diminishes. Oldering tracks the transitions and developmental tasks specific to living our later decades. This later stage of being alive as human is as significant a lifestage as is infancy or adolescence but it has its own intent, metaphysics, and biophysical underpinnings. It is a time rich with new understandings of oneself as body and self in the world outside and within.
I invite you to check out my blog at: robinrosesaltonstall.com.
I welcome any stories you want to share about your own oldering experience.
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Publications
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SUBSTACK: Fieldnotes on Oldering. saltonstallfieldnotesonoldering@substack.com
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Saltonstall, R. R. (2026). Feeling the Ache of Earth in Our Bones: The Role of Sensory Anamnesis and Mammalsensing in Sustaining Planetary and Human Health. Ecopsychology, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/19429347251389959
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R. Saltonstall, “Healthy Bodies, Social Bodies: Men’s and Women’s Concepts and Practices of Health in Everyday Life.” Social Science and Medicine. 36: 7-14, 1993.
R.Saltonstall, In Our Own Words: Older American Speak Out. San Francisco: KQED, 1981. Research study on aging in contemporary America using as a data base the viewer letters received by PBS’ OverEasy program for older adults. Final report presented at the White House Conference on Aging, November, 1981
R.Saltonstall and E. Perwin. The Implementation of State Solar Energy Information and Outreach Programs in Selected States. Golden, CO: SERI/TR-352-579, July, 1979.
B. Hyman and R.Saltonstall, “Tax Structure and Economic Incentives for Conservation and Solar Energy Systems” Economics of Solar Energy and Energy Conservation, F. Kreith, ed., CRC Press, September, 1980.
R.Saltonstall, “The Role of Women in the Transfer of Solar Technologies to Developing Countries” presented at the International Solar Energy Society Annual Meeting, 1979.
J. Ashworth, R. Saltonstall, R. Meunier, Development Planning and Solar Energy: International Institutions and US Policy Options for the Promotion of Renewable Resources in the Developing World. Golden, CO: SERI/MR-51-127, December, 1978.
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