By Mindy Greenstein,Jimmie Holland
These concerns are likely to top in midlife; yet in Lighter as We Go, Mindy Greenstein and Jimmie Holland express us that, opposite to universal knowledge, our experience of health really raises with our age--often even within the presence of ailment or incapacity. For the 1st time, Greenstein and Holland--on a three way partnership among an eighty five year-old and a fifty year-old--explore confident psychology options of personality strengths and virtues to unveil how and why, throughout the process an entire life, we examine who we're as we pass. Drawing from the authors' personal own, intergenerational friendship, in addition to a extensive array of analysis from many various areas--including social psychology, anthropology, neuroscience, humanities, psychiatry, and gerontology--Lighter as We pass introduces compassion, justice, neighborhood, and tradition to aid calm our cascading fears of aging.
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