A Long Bright Future
$53.19
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
26 September 2011
Summary
The twentieth century bequeathed us a fabulous gift: thirty more years of life on average. Supersized life spans are going to radically alter society, and present an unprecedented opportunity to change our approach not only to old age but to all of life’s stages. The ramifications are just beginning to dawn on us…. yet in the meantime, we keep thinking about, and planning for, life as it used to be lived. In A Long Bright Future , longevity and aging expert Laura Carstensen guides us into t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781610390576 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1610390571 |
| Author: | Laura L. Carstensen |
| Publisher: | PublicAffairs,U.S. |
| Imprint: | PublicAffairs,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 26 September 2011 |
| Weight: | 360g |
| Dimensions: | 214mm x 138mm x 26mm |
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Huffington Post “Many great minds are committed to redefining aging and retirement models that embrace this new reality. One of them is Laura Carstensen. Carstensen has been on the forefront of research on aging for nearly 30 years.”
About The Author
Laura L. Carstensen
Laura L. Carstensen, PhD is Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, where she is also Chair of the Psychology Department. She has published extensively about emotional, cognitive, and motivational changes with age and formulated socioemotional selectivity theory. She is a fellow in the American Psychological Society, American Psychological Association, and the Gerontological Society of America. Dr. Carstensen received the Kalish Award for Innovative Research from the Gerontological Society in 1993 and was selected as a Guggenheim Fellow in 2003.
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