NOTES AND FURTHER READING

AUTHOR INTERNET CONNECTIONS

Authentic Wisdom from America’s Centenarians, Steve Franklin, Ph.D. www.100wisdom.com

Our mission is to capture the wisdom of America’s centenarians and share it with the younger generation.

National Centenarian Awareness Project, Lynn Peters Adler, J.D. www.adlercentenarians.org

Inspiring Positive Aging. Our nonprofit organization celebrates active centenarians as role models for the future of aging. On our blog, we discuss the lifestyles of active centenarians and what it’s like to live to 100 and beyond.

SUGGESTED READING LIST

Adler, Lynn Peters. Centenarians: The Bonus Years. Sante Fe, New Mexico: Health Press, 1995.

Bortz, II, Walter M. and Randall Stickrod. The Roadmap to 100: The Breakthrough Science of Living a Long and Healthy Life. New York: Palgrave MacMillian, 2010.

Buettner, Dan. The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who’ve Lived the Longest. Washington, D. C., National Geographic Press. 2008.

________. Blue Zones: 9 Secrets to Live a Long Life. Washington, D. C., National Geographic Press, 2012.

Butler, Robert N. The Longevity Prescription: The 8 Proven Keys to a Long, Healthy Life. New York: Penguin Group, 2010.

Friedman, Howard S. and Leslie R Martin. The Longevity Project: Surprising Discoveries for Health and Long Life from the Landmark Eight-Decade Study. New York: Hudson Street Press, 2011.

Goldberg, Elkhonon. The Wisdom Paradox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger As Your Brain Grows Older. New York: Penguin, 2006.

Gupta, Sanjay. Chasing Life. New York: Hachette Book Group U.S.A., 2007.

Nuland, M.D., Sherwin B. The Art of Aging: A Doctor’s Prescription for Well Being. New York: Random House, 2007.

Pillemer, Karl. 30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice for the Wisest Americans. New York: Penguin, 2012.

Perls, Thomas T. and Margery Hutter Silver, with John F. Lauerman. Living to 100: Lessons in Living to Your Maximum Potential at Any Age. New York: Perseus Book Group, 1999.

Robbins, John. Healthy to 100. New York: Ballantine Books, 2007.

CENTENARIAN RESEARCH STUDIES

Georgia Centenarian Study, ran from 1988 through 2009 under the direction of Leonard Poon, Ph.D., at the University of Georgia Institute of Gerontology. www.publichealth.uga.edu/geron/research/centenarian-study.

New England Centenarian Study, begun in 1994, Thomas Perls, M.D., director, University of Boston. www.bumc.bu.edu/centenarian.

Gerontology Research Group, founded in 1990 by Stephen Coles, M.D., Ph.D., UCLA,. Focus is on supercentenarians, people age 110 and older. www.grg.org.

The Longevity Genes Project, began in 2002, Dr. Nir Barzilai, Director, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, www.einstein.yu.edu/centers/aging/longevity-genes-project.

PHOTO CREDITS

Ron Gilbert, courtesy Lifetouch Portrait Studio.

George Blevins, National Senior Games Association.

Trudi Fletcher, photo by Ellen Sussman, courtesy of Green Valley News, Green Valley, AZ.

Margaret Dunning, photo by Neil Rashba, courtesy of Rashba.com.

Thanks to the families of the centenarians in this book who provided some of the photos.