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A Long Bright Future

The twentieth century bequeathed us a fabulous gift: thirty more years of life on average. In A Long Bright Future, longevity and aging expert Laura Carstensen guides us into the new possibilities offered by a longer life.

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The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50

Drawing on cutting-edge research, award-winning journalist Jonathan Rauch shows that from our 20s into our 40s, happiness follows a U-shaped trajectory, a “happiness curve,” declining from the optimism of youth into what’s often a long, low slump in middle age, before starting to rise again in our 50s to show his fellow adults the best is yet to come.

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The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity

Economists, Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott offer an analysis to help you rethink retirement, your finances, your education, your career, and your relationships to create a fulfilling 100-year life.

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Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life

Physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson's Elderhood is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life.

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The Third Chapter: Passion, Risk, and Adventure in the 25 Years After 50

Renowned sociologist Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot in The Third Chapter redefines our views about the casualties and opportunities of aging.

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One Hundred Over 100: Moments with One Hundred North American Centenarians

A fascinating compilation of profiles and photographs of vibrant men and women who celebrate life.

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The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life

Everybody tells you to live for a cause larger than yourself, but how exactly do you do it? Bestselling author David Brooks explores what it takes to lead a meaningful life in a self-centered world.

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Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age

Pipher offers a timely examination of the cultural and developmental issues women face as they age.

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Some Reassembly Required

Here’s how people looking for a fresh start are cultivating potent new versions of themselves.

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The Mature Mind: The Positive Power of the Aging Brain

In this landmark book, renowned psychiatrist Gene Cohen challenges the long-held belief that our brain power inevitably declines as we age, and shows that there are actually positive changes taking place in our minds.

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3 Science-Based Strategies to Increase Your Creativity

Here are three science-based strategies to juice your ability to come up with new and creative ideas.

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Breaking the Age Code

Yale professor and leading expert on the psychology of successful aging, Dr. Becca Levy, draws on her ground-breaking research to show how age beliefs can be improved so they benefit all aspects of the aging process, including the way genes operate and the extension of life expectancy by 7.5 years.

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Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity

A groundbreaking manifesto on living better and longer that challenges the conventional medical thinking on aging and reveals a new approach to preventing chronic disease and extending long-term health, from a visionary physician and leading longevity expert, Peter Attia

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Better with Age: The Psychology of Successful Aging

Alan D. Castel addresses the many myths and paradoxes about the aging process. This book presents the latest scientific research about the psychology of aging, coupled with insights from those who have succeeded in doing it well.

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Borrowed Time: The Science of How and Why We Age

Sue Armstrong tells the story of science's quest to understand aging and to prevent or delay the crippling conditions so often associated with old age.

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Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives

Daniel J. Levitin explores what aging really means, using research from developmental neuroscience and the psychology of individual differences, he reveals resilience strategies and practical, cognitive enhancing tricks everyone should do as they age. 

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Lifespan: Why We Age-and Why We Don't Have To

Dr. David Sinclair, leading world authority on genetics and longevity, reveals a bold new theory for why we age, offers a front-row seat to the amazing global effort to slow, stop, and reverse aging, and calls readers to consider a future where aging can be treated.

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The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer

Coauthored by the Nobel Prize winner who discovered telomerase and telomeres' role in the aging process and the health psychologist who has done original research into how specific lifestyle and psychological habits can protect telomeres, slowing disease and improving life.

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Triumphs of Experience: The Men of the Harvard Grant Study

The longest longitudinal study of human development ever undertaken offers some welcome news for the new old age: our lives continue to evolve in our later years, and often become more fulfilling than before.

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Life Lessons from a Brain Surgeon: Practical Strategies for Peak Health and Performance

This fascinating book draws on Dr. Jandial’s broad-spectrum expertise and brings together the best of various fields—surgery, science, brain structure, the conscious mind—all to explain the bigger picture of brain health and rejuvenation

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Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, Sexy, and Smart-Until You're 80 and Beyond

Learn how to become functionally younger for the next five to ten years, and continue to live thereafter with newfound vitality.

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The Longevity Diet: Discover the New Science Behind Stem Cell Activation and Regeneration to Slow Aging, Fight Disease, and Optimize Weight

The internationally renowned, clinically tested, revolutionary diet program to lose weight, fight disease, and live a longer, healthier life.

Blog and Video

Loneliness: An Epidemic?

If you’ve ever felt lonely, know that you’re not alone. Feelings of loneliness affect everyone at some point, but persistent loneliness can become a serious problem that damages physical health and shortens lifespan.

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Is Longevity Determined by Genetics?

The duration of human life (longevity) is influenced by genetics, the environment, and lifestyle.

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Study helps explain why motivation to learn declines with age

In a study of mice, MIT neuroscientists have now identified a brain circuit that is critical for maintaining this kind of motivation.

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How Exercise Might Affect Immunity to Lower Cancer Risk

Working out may enhance the immune system’s ability to target and eradicate cancer cells, a study in mice suggests.

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If You Do This for 2 Minutes Every 2 Hours, Scientists Say You'll Be Much Smarter (and Remember a Lot More)

according to a meta-review of a number of studies published last month in the journal Transitional Sports Medicine, there's evidence that even "aerobic exercise for two minutes to one hour at moderate-to-high intensity improved attention, concentration, and learning and memory functions for up to two hours."

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Breaking the Age Code: How Your Beliefs About Aging Determine How Long and Well You Live

Yale professor and leading expert on the psychology of successful aging, Dr. Becca Levy, draws on her ground-breaking research to show how age beliefs can be improved so they benefit all aspects of the aging process, including the way genes operate and the extension of life expectancy by 7.5 years.

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Wisdom at Work: The Making of a Modern Elder

Chip Conley reveals the secret to thriving as a mid-life worker: learning to marry wisdom and experience with curiosity, a beginner's mind, and a willingness to evolve, all hallmarks of the "Modern Elder."

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This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism

Ashton Applewhite's rousing manifesto calling for an end to discrimination and prejudice on the basis of age.

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I'm Not Done: It's Time to Talk about Ageism in the Work Place

Patti Temple Rocks takes a deep dive into ageism in the workplace—what it looks like, how it harms people and businesses alike, and how business leaders can get on the right side of the issue.

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Ageism: Stereotyping and Prejudice against Older Persons

This volume presents the current thinking on age stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination by researchers in gerontology, psychology, sociology, and communication. The book presents theoretical and empirical findings on the origins and effects of ageism, as well as suggestions on how to reduce ageism for the approaching "graying of America."

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How I Became an Entrepreneur at 66

It's never too late to reinvent yourself. Take it fromPaul Tasner who founded his own start-up at 66.

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What's the Best Age?

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Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes

Transitions takes readers step-by-step through the three perilous stages of any transition, explaining how each stage can be understood and embraced. The book offers an elegant, simple, yet profoundly insightful roadmap to navigate change and move into a hopeful future.

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It's Never Too Late to Begin Again: Discovering Creativity and Meaning at Midlife and Beyond

In this book, Cameron shows readers how cultivating their creative selves can help them navigate retirement, and show readers how this can, be the most rich, fulfilling, and creative time of their lives. 

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Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life

Bill Burnett and Dave Evans bestselling book shows you how to build—design—a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage .

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Dream: Clarify And Create What You Want

Through this book, Marcia Wieder will help you design a life that is the highest expression of your purpose by creating dreams in every area that matters to you, both personally and professionally, and help you take real steps toward creating and achieving the dreams that matter to you most.

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Hidden Blessings: Midlife Crisis As a Spiritual Awakening

At midlife your story is only half told, the whole point of midlife is to allow – even force – a re-evaluation of who you are and the life you have created, giving you your very best chance to discover, realize, and actualize your deepest spiritual nature in everyday life.

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Just Enough: Tools for Creating Success in Your Work and Life

In Just Enough, top Harvard professors offer a revealing, research-based look at the true nature of professional success, helping people everywhere live more rewarding and satisfying lives.

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True Purpose: 12 Strategies for Discovering the Difference You Are Meant to Make

 In True Purpose, you will discover 12 proven methods to find the unique, individual purpose that is authentically you.

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How to Live Forever: The Enduring Power of Connecting the Generations

In How to Live Forever, Encore.org founder and CEO Marc Freedman tells the story of his thirty-year quest to fine fulfillment and happiness in our longer lives.

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Winter's Graces: The Surprising Gifts of Later Life

Filled with unexpected good news about growing older, Dr. Susan Avery Stewart highlights eleven qualities that ripen with age.

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Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

In Falling Upward, Fr. Richard Rohr seeks to help readers understand the tasks of the two halves of life and to show them that those who have fallen, failed, or "gone down" are the only ones who understand "up."

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Man's Search for Meaning

A Holocaust survivor takes on life's most profound questions, namely how we ascribe value to our lives.

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Do you know your life’s purpose?

Your life purpose can be mapped to nine universal values. You have access to all nine to some degree, but the exact mix is unique to you. McKinsey research uncovered three common patterns based on these values and what it can mean for your life at work.

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On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families

Dr. Kubler-Ross explores the stages of death through sample interviews and conversations to show the reader a better understanding of how imminent death affects the patient, the professionals who serve that patient, and the patient's family, bringing hope to all who are involved.

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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

 Through eye-opening research and gripping stories of his own patients and family, Atul Gawande, a practicing surgeon, has fearlessly revealed the struggles of his profession. Being Mortal shows how the ultimate goal is not a good death but a good life—all the way to the very end.

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On Living

A hospice chaplain, Kerry Egan, passes on wisdom on giving meaning to life, from those taking leave of it. 

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The Four Things That Matter Most: A Book about Living

Dr. Ira Byock, an international leader in palliative care, explains how we can practice life-affirming words in our day-to-day lives. His stories help us to forgive, appreciate, love, and celebrate one another and live life more fully.

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Necessary Losses

From grief and mourning to aging and relationships, Judith Viorst presents a thoughtful and researched study in this examination of love, loss, and letting go.

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The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

 An enlightening, inspiring, and comforting manual for life and death written by Sogyal Rinpoche, is the ultimate introduction to Tibetan Buddhist wisdom.

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The Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience, after losing her husband: a portrait of a marriage--and a life, in good times and bad--that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.

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On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss

Dr. Kübler-Ross combines practical wisdom, case studies, and her own experiences and spiritual insight to explain how the process of grieving helps us live with loss.

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Montaigne: To Philosophize is to Learn to Die

Michel de Montaigne thought about death a lot. In many ways he thought about it for our benefit. In this essay, Montaigne makes the point that “all the wisdom and reasoning boils down finally to this point: to teach us not to be afraid to die.”