彼女が50年程前、大学院生時代に行った奇抜な実地調査。「老人になるとどうなる？どう扱われる？」を実感したいと映画の特殊メイクで26歳から80歳に大変身。米14州116市を3年回り「老いた」自分に対する人々の反応を見て回ったそうです。

The author, Pat Moore, is a few years older than me and well-known for starting to promote "universal design." This book is about her experiences when she was 26 to 29 years old. As a graduate student, she came up with the idea of pretending to be an octogenarian to see how people would treat her.