Foreword by Art Linkletter
1. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, “Effects of Health Care Spending on the U.S. Economy,” February 25, 2005; Congressional Budget Office, “The Economic and Budget Outlook: Fiscal Years 1999–2008,” January 1998; Economic Policy Institute, “Collision course: The Bush budget and Social Security,”March 16, 2005.
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Foreword by Mark Victor Hansen
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Introduction: Forget Entitlements—Introducing the Ten Empowerments
1. Social Security Administration, “Status of the Social Security and Medicare Programs,”March 23, 2005.
2. Ibid.
Part I : It’s Not “How Old Are You?” But “How Are You Old?”
chapter one: The Eight Great Myths About Growing Old
1. Franklin P. Adams, Nods and Becks (New York:Whittlesey House, 1944), 53.
2. Philip James Bailey, Festus (B. B.Mussey & Co.; 8th American edition, 1849), Scene V.
3. USA Today/ABC News poll quoted in “Centenarian Envy,” Fight Aging, October 23, 2005, http://www.fightaging.org/archives/000644.php.
4. Donna L. Hoyert, Hsiang-Ching Kung, and Betty L. Smith (ed.), National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol. 53, No. 15, “Deaths: Preliminary Data for 2003,” February 28, 2005, http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr53/nvsr53_15.pdf.
5. Kathleen Fackelmann,“Centenarians Increase in Age and Numbers,”USAToday.com, October 23, 2005, www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2005-10-23-aging-centenarians_ x.htm.
6. Samuel Ullman,“Youth,” The Silver Treasury, Prose and Verse for Every Mood, ed. Jane Manner (New York: Samuel French, 1934), 323–24.
7. “World’s Oldest Person,” AVirtualDominica.com, October 14, 2003, www.avirtualdominica.com/mapampo.htm.
8. Dan Buettner,“The Secrets of Long Life,”National Geographic,November 2005, 2–27.
9. The Stowe Foundation, http://www.thestowefoundation.org/index.htm.
10. Steve Chawkins, “At 105, He Still Throws Self Into Sports,” Los Angeles Times, November 26, 2004.
11. Margie M. Donlon, Ori Ashman, and Becca R. Levy, “Re-Vision of Older Television Characters: A Stereotype-Awareness Intervention,” Journal of Social Issues 61 (2), 2005, 307–319.
12. Linda Langley, Rebecca Thurston, Wythe Whiting, and James Blumenthal, “Interaction of Blood Pressure and Adult Age in Memory Search and Visual Search Performance,” Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 10 (4), 241–254.
13. Gary Small, The Memory Prescription (New York: Hyperion, 2004), 8.
14. M. F. K. Fisher, Sister Age, “Afterword” (New York: Vintage, 1983).
15. J. G. Bretschneider and N. L.McCoy, “Sexual interest and behavior in healthy 80- to 102-year-olds,” Archives of Sexual Behavior, April 1988; 17(2):109–29.
16. Xenia Montenegro and Linda Fisher, “Sexuality at Midlife and Beyond,” AARP the Magazine, July/August 2005.
17. Gary R. Andrews and George C. Myers, Australian Longitudinal Study of Aging, Waves 1–5 (1992-1997), Adelaide, South Australia: Flinders University of South Australia, Centre for Ageing Studies, 1999, distributed by Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2000; Gary R. Andrews and George C. Myers, Australian Longitudinal Study of Aging, Wave 6 (1999–2000), Adelaide, South Australia: Flinders University of South Australia, Centre for Ageing Studies, 1999, distributed by Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, Ann Arbor,Michigan, 2003.
18. Buettner, “The Secrets of Long Life,” 19–20.
19. Robert H. Coombs,“Marital Status and Personal Well-Being: A Literature Review,” Family Relations, 1991, 40: 97–102.
20. Frederic M. Hudson, The Adult Years: Mastering the Art of Self-Renewal (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1999), 219.
21. Martin E. P. Seligman, C. Peterson, and S.Maier, Learned Helplessness: A Theory for the Age of Personal Control (New York: Oxford University Press 1993), 4–7.
22. Kathleen Pender, “Everyone, Start Saving,” San Francisco Chronicle, February 2, 2006, C-1; U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, “National Economic Accounts,” http://www.bea.gov/bea/dn1.htm.
23. “Rule of Conduct,” Letters of John Wesley, ed. George Eayrs, (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1915), 423.
chapter two: Final Score: Lifestyle 70, Genes 30
1. Ida Husted Harper, The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill, 1899), ch. 46.
2. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wartime Writings (New York: Harvest/HBJ Book, 2002), 114.
3. John W. Rowe and Robert L. Kahn, Successful Aging (New York; Random House, 1998), 30.
4. “Seventieth Birthday Speech,” Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays, 1891–1910 (New York: Library of America, 1992), 716.
5. Quoted in “Books,” Sunday London Times,May 10, 1992.
6. World Health Organization, The World Health Report 2003, “Global cancer rates could increase by 50% to 15 million by 2020” (press release) April 3, 2003.
7. “Supplements: Turmeric,” WholeHealthMD.com, www.wholehealthmd.com/refshelf/substances_view/1,1525,10062,00.html.
8. Chisato Nagata, Naoyoshi Takatsuka, and Hiroyuki Shimizu, “Soy and Fish Oil Intake and Mortality in a Japanese Community,” American Journal of Epidemiology, November 2002, 156: 824–831.
9. Gary E. Fraser, “Associations between diet and cancer, ischemic heart disease, and all-cause mortality in non-Hispanic white California Seventh-day Adventists,” The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 70, No. 3, 532S–538S, September 1999.
10. J. M.Marijke and Chin A. Paw,Wageningen University, The Netherlands, “Immune Response in Elderly Depends on Physical Activity Rather Than Enriched Diet,” Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, Vol. 32, No. 12, page 2005.
11. R. Jorde & K. H. Bønaa, “Calcium from dairy products, vitamin D intake, and blood pressure: the Tromsø study,” American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 71:1530–1535; A. Flood,U. Peters, N. Chatterjee, J.V. Lacey, C. Schairer, and A. Schatzkin, “Calcium from diet and supplements is associated with reduced risk of colorectal cancer in a prospective cohort of women,” Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, Vol. 14, January 2005, 126–132.
12. William Strawbridge, “Frequent attendance at religious services and mortality over 28 years,” American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 87, Issue 6 (1997), 957–961.
13. Sandra L.Reynolds,Yasuhiko Saito, and Eileen M.Crimmins,“The Impact of Obesity on Active Life Expectancy in Older American Men and Women,” The Gerontologist (2005) 45:438–444.
14. Kathleen Fackelmann, “Omega-3 Gets Another Boost,” USA Today, July 21, 2003, http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2003-07-21-fish-usat_x.htm.
15. Becca Levy,Martin D. Slade, Stanislav V. Kasl, Suzanne Kunkel, “Ohio Longitudinal Study of Aging and Retirement,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83: 261–270, 2002.
16. Michael D. Lemonick, “The Ravages of Stress,” Time, December 13, 2004, 45.
17. Richard Corliss and Michael D. Lemonick, “How to Live to Be 100,” Time, August 30, 2004, 43.
18. Victor Hugo, “Thoughts,” Victor Hugo’s Intellectual Autobiography, trans. Lorenzo O’Rourke, (Funk and Wagnalls, 1907).
19. “Vitamin Pills Do Not Stop Cancer,” BBC News, October 1, 2004, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3703498.stm.
20. Leonard W. Poon (ed.), The Georgia Centenarian Study (Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing Co., 1992).
21. Lisa Chippendale, “Toward a Fountain of Health, Not Youth,”American Federation for Aging Research, http://websites.afar.org/site/PageServer?pagename=IA_feat4.
22. Stephen S. Hall, Merchants of Immortality (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003), 204.
23. National Cancer Institute, Antioxidants and Cancer Prevention: Fact Sheet, January 8, 2003, www.cancer.gov/newscenter/pressreleases/antioxidants; The George Mateljan Foundation for The World’s Healthiest Foods, “The World’s Healthiest Foods List, A-Z,” http://www.whfoods.com/foodstoc.php.
24. Hugo L. Black, Think, February 1963.
25. Leonard Hayflick, comments from “Briefing on Anti-Aging Medicine,” New York Academy of Sciences, June 23, 2004.
chapter three: It’s Who You Know
1. André Maurois, The Art of Living, trans. James Whitall (New York: Penguin, 1960), 282–83.
2. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary (New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2004), 20.
3. Eric W. Kaplan, “Seniors and Depression,” Medical Moment , July 1, 2003, www.medicalmoment.org/_content/signs/jul03/151175.asp.
4. Thomas A. Glass, Carlos Mendes de Leon, Richard A. Marottoli, and Lisa F., Berkman, “Population based study of social and productive activities as predictors of survival among elderly Americans,” British Medical Journal , August 1999; 319:478–483.
5. A. Faber and S. Wasserman, “Social Support and Social Networks: Synthesis and Review,” Social Networks and Health, Advances in Medical Sociology (J. Levy and B. Pescosolido, eds.), 8, 29–72.
6. “Communications as Therapy: The Science behind CaringFamily,”CaringFamily.com, 2005, www.caringfamily.com/public/service/science.cfm.
7. “People,” Jule Styne, lyrics, and Bob Merrill,music (New York: Chappell-Styne, Inc.), 1963.
8. Walter M. Bortz II, Dare to Be 100: 99 Steps to a Long, Healthy Life (New York: Fireside, 1996), 37.
9. Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, Ch. 2 (London: Chapman and Hall, 1841).
10. Thomas Rutledge, Karen Matthews, Li-Yung Lui, Katie L. Stone, and Jane A. Cauley, “Social Networks and Marital Status Predict Mortality in Older Women: Prospective Evidence from the Study of Osteoporotic Fractures,” Psychosomatic Medicine, 2003, 65:688–694.
11. Jeannette Haviland-Jones, “The Flowers & Seniors Study,” 2001, quoted in “Mother Nature’s Social Security,” Society of American Florists, AboutFlowers.com, www.aboutflowers.com/seniorstudy.htm.
12. Edward Schneider, AgeLess (New York: Rodale, 2003), 68–70.
13. American College of Clinical Thermology, “Overview of Digital Infrared Thermal Imaging,” www.thermologyonline.org/patients_overview.htm.
14. Abby Adams, An Uncommon Scold (New York: Fireside, 1989).
Part II : You Can’t Turn Back the Clock, But You Can Rewind It
chapter four:Work & Money or The Only Thing You Should Re-Tire Is Your Car
1. Pearl S. Buck,My Several Worlds (New York: Pocket Books, 1960), 337.
2. Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 3, (New York: Harvest/HBJ Book, 1971).
3. André Maurois, The Art of Living, trans. James Whitall (New York: Penguin, 1960), 282–83.
4. Julia Boorstin, “Get Real About Your Future,” Fortune, July 11, 2005, p. 42.
5. Labor Research Association, “The Pension Crisis Hits the Fan (July 29, 2004),” LRA Online, www.laborresearch.org/story2.php/360.
6. Peter Coy and Diane Brady, “Old. Smart. Productive.Voices of Experience,” Business Week, June 27, 2005.
7. “Baby Boomers Envision Retirement II: Survey of Baby Boomers’ Expectations for Retirement,” AARP (study conducted by RoperASW), www.aarp.org/money/careers/employerresourcecenter/researchanddata/a2004-08-10-envisionret.html.
8. Kathy M. Kristof, “More Senior Citizens Are Opting to Stay Employed,” Los Angeles Times, August 1, 1999.
9. Hesther Lynch Piozzi, Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson LLD (London: 1786).
10. Minnie Holmes-McNary and Albert S. Baldwin, Jr.,“Chemopreventive Properties of trans-Resveratrol Are Associated with Inhibition of Activation of the I{kappa}B Kinase,” Cancer Research, 60:13, 3477–3483.
11. Ellen Freudenheim, The Boomers’ Guide to Good Work—An Introduction to Jobs That Make a Difference (Washington, D.C.: MetLife Foundation and Civic Ventures, 2005), 3.
12. Jim Hopkins, “The New Entrepreneurs: Americans Over 50,” USA Today, January 17, 2005.
13. Lynn A. Karoly and Julie Zissimopoulos, “Self-Employment and the 50+ Population,” AARP Public Policy Institute Issue Paper,March 2004, 93.
14. William D. Novelli,“How Aging Boomers Will Impact American Business,” (speech presented at meeting of the Wisemen), The Harvard Club, New York, NY, February 21, 2002.
15. “As Entrepreneurs, Seniors Lead U.S. Start-Ups;”“The Image Of Senior Start-Ups Is Making Businesses Re-Think Their Options,” Franchising World, August 2005.
16. “Seniors in the Workforce,” NationalCity.com, http://www.nationalcity.sbresources.com/SBR_template.cfm?DocNumber=PL18_0200.htm.
17. Karen E. Spaeder, “9 Senior Businesses to Start,” Entrepreneur, November 18, 2004.
18. Freudenheim, The Boomers Guide, 3.
19. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (New York: Modern Library, 1998), 245.
20. Ruth Helman, Mathew Greenwald & Associates, Dallas Salisbury, Variny Paladino, and Craig Copeland, “Encouraging Workers to Save: The 2005 Retirement Confidence Survey,” Employee Benefit Research Institute, April 2005, 5.
21. Robert B. Avery and Michael S. Rendall, “Estimating Size and Distribution of Baby Boomers’ Prospective Inheritances,” American Statistical Association’s 1993 Proceedings of the Social Statistics Section, 1993, 11–19; “Fast Facts About the Largest . . . Most Lucrative . . . Most Active Market . . . BOOMERS,” JWT Mature Marketing Group, http://www.beyondthenumbers.com/btn5.html.
22. U.S. Congressional Budget Office, “The Retirement Prospects of the Baby Boomers” (special report),March 18, 2004.
23. Cait Murphy and Julia Boorstin, “Five Threats to Your Financial Security,” Fortune, July 11, 2005: 90–96.
24. “Top Ten Ways to Prepare for Retirement,”National Retirement Planning Coalition, www.retireonyourterms.org.
25. David Bach, The Automatic Millionaire: A Powerful One-Step Plan to Live and Finish Rich (New York: Broadway, 2003).
chapter five: Body or Never Let Anyone Help You Out of a Chair
1. Dave Barry, “Your Disintegrating Body,”Dave Barry Turns 40 (New York: Ballantine Books, 1990), 17.
2. Harry S. Broudy, “Education for Leisure,” Paradox and Promise: Essays on American Life and Education (Danville, IL: Vero Media, 1961).
3. Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (New York: Grove Press, Reprint edition, 1991).
4. Chris Crowley and Henry S. Lodge, Younger Next Year (Ontario: Thomas Allen &Son Limited, 2005), 13–15; Jon W. Williamson, Peter G. Snell, C.Gunnar Blomqvist, Bengt Saltin, “A 30-Year Follow-Up of the Dallas Bed Rest and Training Study: II. Effect of Age on Cardiovascular Adaptation to Exercise Training,” Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association, Sep 2001; 104: 1358–1366.
5. “Eat ‘Super Foods,’” Nutrition Action Healthletter, Center for Science in the Public Interest, www.cspinet.org/nah/10foods_good.html.
6. Agatha Christie, An Autobiography (New York: Berkley Publishing Group, 1996).
7. Carolyn C. Armistead, “5 Smarter Ways to Lose Weight: Follow These Guidelines and You Will Drop Pounds, Just As Our Writer Did,” Shape, June 2003.
8. To purchase Joyce Shaffer’s e-book, Bone Health Guide: Osteoporosis & Thinning Bones,” please go to http://www.kickstartcart.com/app/netcart.asp?setCookie= TRUE&MerchantID=56187&ProductID=2124101.
9. “Diabetes Epidemic Could Claim 622,000 Lives Annually by 2025,” SeniorJournal.com, November 9, 2005, www.seniorjournal.com/NEWS/Health/5-11-09DiabetesEpidemic.htm.
10. Walter M. Bortz II, Diabetes Danger (New York: Select Books, 2005), 1.
11. Claudia C. Collins, “Water: Fountain of Life,” Fact Sheet 99-30, University of Nevada, Reno Senior Wellness Series.
12. Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, Ladies’ Home Journal, September 1956.
13. Andrew Weil, “Aging Naturally” (book excerpt), Time, October 17, 2005, 64–65.
14. Oliver Wendell Holmes, radio address, March 8, 1931, His Book Notices and Uncollected Letters and Papers (ed. Harry C. Shriver), (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 1936), 142.
15. Rob Stein, “Study Is First to Confirm That Stress Speeds Aging,” Washington Post, November 30, 2004, page A01.
16. 2003 Sleep in America Poll ,National Sleep Foundation, http://www.sleepfoundation.org/hottopics/index.php?secid=16&id=207.
17. “Survey Reveals Older Americans’ Attitudes Toward Sleep” (news release), International Longevity Center-USA, Sleep and Healthy Aging Scientific Consensus Conference, November 3, 2005.
18. Ibid.
19. Walter M. Bortz II, Dare to Be 100: 99 Steps to a Long, Healthy Life (New York: Fireside, 1996), 197–198.
20. Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Act III, 1893.
21. Crowley and Lodge, Younger Next Year, 29–30.
chapter six: Mind or Are You “Sageing” or Aging?
1. Abigail Van Buren, Editor & Publisher, quoted in Reader’s Digest,May, 1980.
2. Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy (New York: Tarcher, 1980).
3. Take a Brain Sip! s.v. “Jeanne Calment,” jeanne-calment.brainsip.com.
4. Adlai Stevenson, “The Educated Citizen,” an address to the class of 1954, Princeton University,March 22, 1954.
5. Andrew Weil, “Aging Naturally” (book excerpt), Time, October 17, 2005, 64–65.
6. Gary Small, The Memory Prescription (New York: Hyperion, 2004), 8.
7. Michael Elstein, Boosting Memory, Preventing Brain Aging (special report), p. 4; for more information, visit Dr. Elstein’s Web site at www.eternalhealth.org.
8. Ibid.
9. R.Katzman,T.Brown, P. Fuld, et al,“What Is the Significance of the Neurotransmitter Abnormalities in Alzheimer’s Disease?”Neuropeptides in Neurologic and Psychiatric Disease, J.B.Martin and J. Barchas, eds. (New York: Raven Press, 1986), 279–286;“Risk Factors for Alzheimer’s Disease,”AlzheimersDisease.com, www.alzheimersdisease.com /hcp/about/pathophysiology/risk-factors.jsp.
10. R. Brookmeyer, S. Gray, and C. Kawas, “Projections of Alzheimer’s Disease in the United States and the Public Health Impact of Delaying Disease Onset,” American Journal of Public Health 88 (1998): 1337–1342.
11. Parvoneh Poorkaj, Vikram Sharma, Leojean Anderson, Ellen Nemens, Ma Elias Alonso, Harry Orr, June White, Leonard Heston, Thomas D. Bird, Gerard D. Schellenberg, “Missense mutations in the chromosome 14 familial Alzheimer’s disease presenilin 1 gene,”Human Mutation, 11: 3, 1998, pp. 216–221.
12. Lester Packer, The Antioxidant Miracle (New York:Wiley & Sons, 1999) 156, 73.
13. Hugh W. Pinnock, “We Will Go with Our Young and with Our Old,” Ensign, November 1979, 74.
14. Audie G. Leventhal, Yongchang Wang, Mingliang Pu, Yifeng Zhou, Yuanye Ma, “GABA and Its Agonists Improved Visual Cortical Function in Senescent Monkeys,” Science, May 2, 2003, 812–815.
15. Kelly Griffin, “Stay Sharp Longer,” AARP The Magazine, September/October 2005; Staying Sharp (e-books), NRTA: AARP’s Educator Community along with the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives, www.aarp.org/about_aarp/nrta/staying_sharp.
16. Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, 1869.
17. J. L. Kuntz, Lost in Time (blog), www.jlkuntz.com/archives/2005/11/old_jokes.html.
18. “Looking Ahead: A Baby-Boomer Perspective,” U.S. Society & Values, Electronic Journal of the U.S. Information Agency, Vol. 4, No. 2, June 1999.
19. John Dewey, Democracy and Education (The Macmillian Company, 1916).
20. Rush University Medical Center, “The Religious Orders Study, 1993–2006,” www.rush.edu/rumc/page-1099611542043.html.
21. Kelly Griffin, “You’re Wiser Now,” AARP The Magazine, September/October 2005.
chapter seven: Sex or Still Enjoying It While Everybody Else Is Just Talking About It
1. D. H. Lawrence, letter, Dec. 27, 1928, to Lady Ottoline Morrell, Heinemann, The Letters of D. H. Lawrence (1932), 773.
2. Amusing Quotes s.v. “Bob Hope,” http://www.amusingquotes.com/h/h/Bob_Hope_ 1.htm.
3. Xenia P. Montenegro and Linda Fisher, “Sexuality At Midlife and Beyond: 2004 Update of Attitudes and Behaviors,” commissioned by AARP the Magazine, 2004.
4. “ElexaTM by Trojan ® Survey ofWomen and Desire,” conducted by StrategyOne (news release), September 13, 2005, www.elexabytrojan.com/news.aspx?type=news.
5. Emily Carlson, “Study shows brain activity influences immune function,”University of Wisconsin, Madison, September 2, 2003, www.news.wisc.edu/8849.html; Erik J. Giltay, Johanna M. Geleijnse, Frans G. Zitman, Tiny Hoekstra, and Evert G. Schouten, “Dispositional Optimism and All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality in a Prospective Cohort of Elderly Dutch Men and Women,” Archives of General Psychiatry, November 2004, 61: 1126–1135.
6. Alan Farnham, “Is Sex Necessary?” Forbes.com, www.forbes.com/2003/10/08/cz_af_1008health.html.
7. Ibid.
8. “Sex, the Cold Cure,” BBC News, April 14, 1999, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/ 319070.stm.
9. Farnham, “Is Sex Necessary?”
10. “Intimacy and aging: Tips for sexual health and happiness,” MayoClinic.com, September 27, 2005, www.mayoclinic.com/health/sexual-health/HA00035.
11. Rita Rudner, from her comedy routine.
12. “Aging Does Not End Sex, Relationships, Says Expert,” SeniorJournal.com, http://www.seniorjournal.com/NEWS/Sex/5-09-21AgingDoesNotEndSex.htm.
13. Sallie Foley, Sex and Love for Grownups: A No-Nonsense Guide to a Life of Passion (Washington, D.C.: AARP, 2005), 153.
chapter eight: Spirituality or Plugging Into a Higher Power
1. Mark Twain, “What Is Man?” (1906), Complete Essays, ed. Charles Neider (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2000).
2. Mark Water (ed.), The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker House, 2001).
3. Po Bronson, “A Prayer Before Dying: The Astonishing Story of a Doctor Who Subjected Faith to the Rigors of Science—And Then Became a Test Subject Herself,” Wired, December 2002.
4. Water, Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations.
5. H. G. Koenig, H. J. Cohen, L. K. George, J. C. Hays, D. B. Larson, and D. G. Blazer, “Attendance at religious services, interleukin-6, and other biological parameters of immune function in older adults,” International Journal of Psychiatric Medicine, 1997; 27(3): 233–50.
6. John H. Christy, “Prayer as Medicine,” Forbes,March 23, 1998.
7. D. B. Larson, H. G. Koenig, B. H. Kaplan, R. S. Greenberg, E. Logue, and H. A. Tyroler, “The impact of religion on men’s blood pressure,” Journal of Religion & Health, 1989; 28: 265–78.
8. W. J. Strawbridge, R. D. Cohen, S. J. Shema, and G. A. Kaplan, “Frequent attendance at religious services and mortality over 28 years,” American Journal of Public Health,1997 87: 957–961.
9. Nic Fleming, “Spiritual Meditation ‘May Reduce Pain,’” (London) Telegraph, September 1, 2005, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/ 2005/09/01/wmed01.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/09/01/ixworld.html.
10. Kenneth I. Pargament,Harold G. Koenig,Nalini Tarakeshwar, June Hahn,“Religious Struggle as a Predictor of Mortality Among Medically Ill Elderly Patients: A 2-Year Longitudinal Study,” Archives of Internal Medicine, 2001;161:1881–1885.
11. Terrence D. Hill, Jacqueline L. Angel, Christopher G. Ellison, and Ronald J. Angel, “Religious Attendance and Mortality: An 8-Year Follow-Up of Older Mexican Americans,” The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 2005 60: S102–S109.
12. Christie Aschwanden, “Mass as Medicine?” http://www.sagecrossroads.org/Default.aspx?tabid=28&newsType=ArticleView&articleId=115.
13. Hill, et al, “Religious Attendance and Mortality.”
14. Harold Koenig, The Healing Connection (West Conshohocken, PA: Templeton Foundation Press, 2004).
15. Frederick Buechner,Wishful Thinking (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1993).
16. Water, Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations.
17. Sharon O’Brien, “Lower Body Exercise for Seniors: Improve Strength and Balance,” (Senior Living), About.com, http://seniorliving.about.com/od/basicexerciseseries/ss/ balanceexercise.htm; George F. Fuller, “Falls in the Elderly,” American Family Physician, April 1, 2000, www.aafp.org/afp/20000401/2159.html.
18. Michael Shermer, “Faith-Medicine Connection Challenged,” Skeptic Magazine, November 10, 2005.
19. Paul T. P. Wong, “A Course on the Meaning of Life,” International Network on Personal Meaning, www.meaning.ca/articles05/mol/course-mol-12sept05.htm.
chapter nine: Attitude or Be Regretless
1. E. B. White, “Life Phases,” New Yorker (February 20, 1937), reprinted in Writings from the New Yorker 1927–1976, ed. Rebecca M. Dale (New York: HarperCollins, 1991).
2. Francis Bacon,“No. 97,” Apothegms, 1925.
3. Sok-Ja Janket, Markku Qvarnström, Jukka H. Meurman, Alison E. Baird, Pekka Nuutinen, and Judith A. Jones, “Asymptotic Dental Score and Prevalent Coronary Heart Disease,” Circulation,March 2004; 109: 1095–1100.
4. Marya Mannes,More in Anger (New York: Lippincott, 1958).
5. Becca Levy,Martin D. Slade, Stanislav V. Kasl, Suzanne Kunkel, “Ohio Longitudinal Study of Aging and Retirement,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83: 261–270, 2002.
6. Amy Scholten, “Attitude About Aging May Affect Longevity,” St. Francis Hospital &Health Centers, 2005, http://www.stfrancishospitals.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?ID=28743&tabindex=3&tabid=37.
7. Candace Pert, The Molecules of Emotion (New York: Touchstone, 1997), 167, 276–77.
8. Samuel Ullman,“Youth,” The Silver Treasury, Prose and Verse for Every Mood, ed. Jane Manner (New York: Samuel French, 1934), 323–24.
chapter ten: Creativity or What’s Grandma Moses Got That You Ain’t Got?
1. Leonard S. Marcus, “Why Is Maurice Sendak So Incredibly Angry?” Parenting, October 1993.
2. Harold Rosenberg, The Tradition of the New (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 1994), preface.
3. Nohl Martin Fouroohi and Ellen Liu Kellor, “Creativity, Activity, and Longevity.” Click “Press” link at http://www.mynewfriend.com.
4. Gene D. Cohen, The Creative Age: Awakening Human Potential in the Second Half of Life (New York: Avon Books, Inc., 2000), 3.
5. Ray Bradbury, “Run Fast . . .,” Zen in the Art of Writing (New York: Capra Press, 1989), 13.
6. Lawrence Katz and Manning Rubin, Keep Your Brain Alive (New York: Workman Publishing Company, Inc., 1999), 31–35.
7. “Hot Topic: Calorie Restriction,” The Longevity Meme, http://www.longevitymeme.org/topics/calorie_restriction.cfm.
8. Gilda Radner, It’s Always Something (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989), 130.
chapter eleven: Purpose or They Don’t Need Preachers in Heaven
1. Wisdom Quotes s.v. “Robert McAfee Brown,” http://wisdomquotes.com/cat_ age.html.
2. Robert Louis Stevenson, “Crabbed Age and Youth,” Virginibus Puerisque and Later Essays (Sheridan, OR: Heron Books, 1969), 67.
3. James Allen, As a Man Thinketh (Camarillo, CA: DeVorss & Company, 1979).
4. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein, 1831.
5. Richard J. Leider, The Purpose Project, An Incomplete Manifesto for Retirement , published on the Web site of the Center for Spirituality and Healing, http://www.csh.umn.edu/img/assets/8100/manifesto1.pdf.
6. Dan Buettner,“The Secrets of Long Life,”National Geographic,November 2005, 2–27.
7. Ibid.
8. Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (Boston: Beacon Press, 1959), 121–122.
9. Ibid. 128–130.
10. Michael Alvear, “Evidence suggests that giving blood has health benefits,” CNN.com Health, April 26, 2000, http://archives.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/04/26/give.blood.wmd.
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1. Columbia World of Quotations, www.bartleby.com/66/96/2496.html.
2. Helen Exley,Wisdom for Our Times (Spencer, MA: Helen Exley Gift Books, 2003).
3. An ad lib by Leonard Nimoy, on the set of the Star Trek television show in 1966, adapted from a traditional Jewish benediction.
4. Margie E. Lachman, “Aging Under Control?” Psychological Science Agenda, Volume 19: No. 1, January 2005.
5. Susannah Fox, “Older Americans and the Internet,” Pew Internet and American Life Project,March 25, 2004, http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/117/report_display.asp.
6. Jessica Rowlands, “Genes Related to Longevity Identified,”MedicalNewsToday.com, December 13, 2005, www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=34869.
7. Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Old Age,” Society and Solitude, 1870.
8. Alan H. Goldstein, “Nanomedicine’s Brave New World,” Salon.com, November 28, 2005, www.salon.com/tech/feature/2005/11/28/nanomedicine/index.html.