Resources
The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 …
The Arts and Older People: A Global Perspective
This chapter (in Creative Aging, Health and Well-Being (Clift and Camic, eds)) focuses on the potential for participatory arts to support a good life in older age. It is motivated by the author‰ŰŞs personal experience …
Aging in America: A Cultural History
By tracing the story of aging in the United States over the course of the last half century, Samuel vividly demonstrates the ways in which getting older tangibly contradicts the prevailing social values and attitudes …