Lighter As We Go - Virtues, Character Strengths, and Aging (Paperback)

The fears of aging have been one long cascading domino effect through the years: twenty year-olds dread thirty; forty year-olds fear fifty; sixty fears seventy, and so it goes. And there is something to worry about, though it isn't what you'd expect: research shows that having a bad attitude toward aging when we're young is associated with poorer health when we're older. These worries tend to peak in midlife; but in Lighter as We Go, Mindy Greenstein and Jimmie Holland show us that, contrary to common wisdom, our sense of well-being actually increases with our age - often even in the presence of illness or disability. For the first time, Greenstein and Holland - on a joint venture between an 85 year-old and a fifty year-old - explore positive psychology concepts of character strengths and virtues to unveil how and why, through the course of a lifetime, we learn who we are as we go. Drawing from the authors' own personal, intergenerational friendship, as well as a broad array of research from many different areas - including social psychology, anthropology, neuroscience, the humanities, psychiatry, and gerontology - Lighter as We Go introduces compassion, justice, community, and culture to help calm our cascading fears of aging.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2018
Authors:	Mindy Greenstein (Clinical Psychologist and Psycho-oncologist,) • Jimmie C. Holland (Wayne E. Chapman Chair in Psychiatric Oncology, Attending Psychiatrist)
Dimensions:	178 x 128 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	312
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-069379-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Clinical psychology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Age groups > Adults > Elderly
LSN:	0-19-069379-7
Barcode:	9780190693794

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