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Aging Well: Surprising Guideposts to a Happier Life from the Landmark Harvard Study of Adult Development America's 78 million baby boomers will next year begin turning sixty. With their aging has come an increasing focus on aging-related issues on the part of politicians, business leaders, marketers, community leaders and others. What does aging mean physically, psychologically, emotionally? How much of what we understand of senior health is biological or inevitable, and how much conditioned? What does it mean for a society to take the needs of its aging population and the question of senior health into account? Into this ground so fertile for discussion comes a groundbreaking book on the subject based on detailed and exceptionally long-term research data. George Vaillant, M.D., is director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development. He has put together a book that integrates data from three separate longevity studies that followed 824 individuals from their teens to old age, spanning more than half a century. The subjects were male graduates of Harvard; disadvantaged inner city males; and intellectually gifted women.Some time ago, one of the subjects wrote to Vaillant to express disappointment at his use of the files he controlled. "You seem little interested in how we cope with increasing age," the subject wrote, "...our adaptability, our zest for life." In agreement that this was an oversight, Vaillant set to work creating this book that delves into the whys and wherefores of senior health. Here he presents narratives about subjects in their 70s and 80s whom he personally interviewed. He describes their personal histories, their relationships, their philosophies and joys. The result is a moving look at the motivations that make aging people want to keep living and engaging with the world. The book also presents ideas of what makes old age different and interesting relative to other life stages. The many subjects, in their various answers, give clues to what makes a meaningful, happy and relatively healthy old age. We can discover that lasting health is not only contingent upon low cholesterol or family history, but also by the ability to adapt to stressors, having a good marriage, and exercising mind and body. Empathetic and sometimes waxing philosophical, Vaillant offers plenty of straight data as well as his own input on findings. For baby boomers and others approaching their mature years, the book is an irreplaceable method of learning about the realities of aging and quality of life from the people who are actually in the midst of experiencing its dynamics. Those with an interest in understanding how aging impacts thinking and values will find abundant food for thought in the pages of Vaillant's work. Back To Mature Market News → Go To The GenerationTarget.com Mature Market Bookstore → |
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