Aging Well

• George E. Vaillant

For more than five decades Harvard Medical School has studied the basic elements of adult human development, analyzing the health and happiness of hundres of individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds. In Aging Well, the director of the study draws on the data gathered and reveals why some peple turn out to be more resilient than others. His conclusion is that individual lifestyle choices play a greater role than genetics, wealth, race, or other factors in determining how happy people are in later life. With step-by-step advice and relevation of scientific findings, this book is aimed to help people age well.