Resources
Building Community Through Arts & Culture
Toolkits | 2017
From the Toolkit: “…the Age-friendly NYC Commission’s Media, Arts, and Culture Working Group offers the latest information on why attracting and serving older patrons is good for businesses, neighborhoods, and even individual health. The guide …
Elderhood
Books and Chapters | 2019
From the Elderhood book site: “Noted Harvard-trained geriatrician Louise Aronson uses stories from her quarter century of caring for patients and draws from history, science, literature, popular culture, and her own life to weave a …
The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50
Books and Chapters | 2018
From The Happiness Curve website: “Drawing on cutting-edge science and human stories, The Happiness Curve shows that happiness follows a U-shaped trajectory, declining from the optimism of youth into what__s often a long, low slump …
Bolder: Making the Most of Our Longer Lives
Books and Chapters | 2018
From the publisher: “Honoré captured the zeitgeist with his international sensation, In Praise of Slow. In Bolder, he introduces us to another rising movement: a revolution in our approach to ageing.”
Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People
Books and Chapters | 2013
In Blindspot, hidden biases are revealed through hands-on experience with the method that has revolutionized the way scientists are learning about the human mind and that gives us a glimpse into what lies within the …
Optimizing Health: A Life-Span Approach
via Boomers & Beyond: Reconsidering the Role of Libraries | Books and Chapters | 2010
Article appearing in Boomers & Beyond: Reconsidering the Role of Libraries. (Rothstein, Pauline & Schull, Diantha D, ed.) American Library Association. Chicago: 2010
Composing A Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom
Books and Chapters | 2010
Here is a book that presents each of us — at any age — with an exhilarating challenge to think about and approach our later lives with the full force of imagination, curiosity, and enthusiasm. …
Social Research and Actions in Ageing Well
via Population Ageing and Australia's Future, ed by H. Kendig, P. McDonald and J. Piggot | Books and Chapters | 2016
The chapter begins with international and national concepts of ageing well and directions for action. We then present a body of Australian research on ageing well including the context and funding that has enabled these …
The Longevity Revolution: the Benefits and Challenges of Living A Long Life
Books and Chapters | 2008
Dr. Robert N. Butler coined the term “ageism” and made “Alzheimer’s” a familiar word. Now he brings his formidable knowledge to a recent and unprecedented achievement: the extension of human life expectancy by thirty years, …
The Mature Mind: the Positive Power of the Aging Brain
Books and Chapters | 2005
Drawing on a wealth of scientific research, as well as in-depth interviews with older women and men, Gene Cohen, a renowned psychiatrist and gerontologist, reveals for the first time how the mind continues to grow …