Posts Tagged ‘ age ’

Aging Well by George Vaillant, MD dispells myths about getting very old!

By Fran_C

Amazon.com Review “We all need models for how to live from retirement to past 80–with joy,” writes George Vaillant, M.D., director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development. This groundbreaking book pulls together data from three separate longevity studies that, beginning in their teens, followed 824 individuals for more than 50 years. The subjects...
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Going from Success to Significance in Work and Life

By Fran_C
Going from Success to Significance in Work and Life

Last Saturday afternoon I watched a special on one of my local PBS stations: KBTC, titled: With Purpose: Going from Success to Significance in Work and Life As a psychologist, gerontologist, documentary filmmaker, entrepreneur and best-selling author of fifteen books on aging-related issues, Dr. Dychtwald has been exploring the implications of the longer age...
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Ask Your Grandma…So Simple Even Your Grandma Could do It!

By Fran_C

How many times have you read that statement? Implying that if an older woman can do “it”… whatever “it” is must be easy to do! Does age determine when a person’s mind stops learning? Never mind that a woman only gets to be a grandmother if her son or daughter becomes a parent… and...
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