Aging well Surprising guideposts to a happier life from the landmark Harvard study of adult development
Book - 2002
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- Published
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Boston :
Little, Brown
[2002]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First edition
- Physical Description
- 373 pages
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9780316090070
9780316989367
- 1. The Study of Adult Development
- 2. Ripeness Is All: Social and Emotional Maturation
- 3. The Past and How Much It Matters
- 4. Generativity: A Key to Successful Aging
- 5. Keeper of the Meaning
- 6. Integrity: Death Be Not Proud
- 7. Healthy Aging: A Second Pass
- 8. Retirement, Play, and Creativity
- 9. Does Wisdom Increase with Age?
- 10. Spirituality, Religion, and Old Age
- 11. Do People Really Change Over Time?
- 12. Positive Aging: A Reprise
- Appendices
- A. The Three Cohorts
- B. An Illustrated Glossary of Defenses
- C. Methodology for Assessing Maturity of Adaptive Mental Mechanisms (a.k.a. Defenses)
- D. Assessment of Childhood Scales
- E. Basic Trust at Age 50 Associated with Childhood Environment and Future Successful Aging
- F. Scale for Subjective Physical Health (Instrumental Activities of Daily Living)
- G. Scale for Objective Mental Health (Age 50-65)
- H. Scale for Objective Social Supports (Age 50-70, Harvard Cohort Only)
- I. Scale for Subjective Life Satisfaction
- J. Table Contrasting the Happy-Well with the Sad-Sick and the Prematurely Dead
- K. Graceful Aging Scale
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index