AGING WELL (Book)

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ON SEXUALITY, SPIRITUALITY, SCHIZOPHRENIA AND MORE SURPRISING
GUIDEPOSTS TO A HAPPIER LIFE FROM THE LANDMARK HARVARD STUDY OF ADULT
DEVELOPMENT

Little, Brown, $24.95

Some of us tend to think of aging as a slippery slope that ends in
the coffin. But as Harvard psychiatrist George Vaillant, M.D., shows, old
age can be the best of times for many people. Vaillant draws on evidence
from the famous Harvard study of development and other sources to
identify why old age is a curse to some and a blessing to others. The
lessons to be learned in this artfully written book are not just for the
elderly; since aging actually begins at birth, young people can learn how
to live so that they will be among what Vaillant calls the "happy-well,"
rather than the "sad-sick" or the "prematurely dead."