Aging Well Surprising Guideposts to a Happier Life from the Landmark Harvard Study of Adult Development

Name: Aging Well Surprising Guideposts to a Happier Life from the Landmark Harvard Study of Adult Development
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ISBN: 9780316989367

ISBN-10: 0316989363

ISBN-13: 9780316989367

Edition: 2002

Authors: George E. Vaillant

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Harvard Medical School has spent more than fifty years studying the basic elements of adult development, looking at life choices, health, and happiness in hundreds of individuals. Now, for the first time ever, the results of this unprecedented study are being made public, and they reveal an extraordinary set of conclusions about how men and women can lead a happier, more fulfilling, healthier life -- into their sixties, seventies, eighties, and beyond. Using these studies and the subjects' individual histories, George E. Vaillant, M.D., the director of the study, shows why some people turn out to be more resilient than others. His extraordinary conclusion is that individual lifestyle…

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List price: $24.45
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Publication date: 1/9/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.342

He is a widely respected researcher, psychiatrist & professor at the Harvard Medical School. He is also the author of several books, including The Wisdom of the Ego, The Natural History of Alcoholism & Adaption to Life. He is considered one of the world's foremost authorities on aging.

The Study of Adult Development	p. 3
Ripeness Is All: Social and Emotional Maturation	p. 39
The Past and How Much It Matters	p. 83
Generativity: A Key to Successful Aging	p. 113
Keeper of the Meaning	p. 141
Integrity: Death Be Not Proud	p. 159
Healthy Aging: A Second Pass	p. 185
Retirement, Play, and Creativity	p. 219
Does Wisdom Increase with Age?	p. 249
Spirituality, Religion, and Old Age	p. 257
Do People Really Change Over Time?	p. 281
Positive Aging: A Reprise	p. 307
Appendices
The Three Cohorts	p. 327
An Illustrated Glossary of Defenses	p. 334
Methodology for Assessing Maturity of Adaptive Mental Mechanisms (a.k.a. Defenses)	p. 336
Assessment of Childhood Scales	p. 338
Basic Trust at Age 50 Associated with Childhood Environment and Future Successful Aging	p. 339
Scale for Subjective Physical Health (Instrumental Activities of Daily Living)	p. 340
Scale for Objective Mental Health (Age 50-65)	p. 342
Scale for Objective Social Supports (Age 50-70, Harvard Cohort Only)	p. 343
Scale for Subjective Life Satisfaction	p. 344
Table Contrasting the Happy-Well with the Sad-Sick and the Prematurely Dead	p. 345
Graceful Aging Scale	p. 346
Notes	p. 347
Acknowledgments	p. 359
Index	p. 361
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